On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 04:43:43AM -0700, Jamie Lists wrote: > Maybe this is a silly question, but i have a few million files i need > to delete but i can't just reformat the volume. > > Right now the fastest thing i can think of is > > nice -20 rm -Rf /folder-i-want-to-delete > > is there a better or faster way to do this? No, but if you want to re-use the directory name, rename it before removing it: mv folder-i-want-to-delete _removed_folder rm -fr _removed_folder & keep working... -- lfr 0/0 -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20070929/e7104db6/attachment-0005.sig>