Re: fast way to delete a directory recursively
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On Fri, Jul 26, 2002 at 07:17:07PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote:
> I have some directories which are usually more than 10GB in size.
> If I want to delete them immediately, is there any fast way except for
> rm -rf <dir>?
If it's not on it's own disk, no.
If it is, you could get truly drastic with things like mke2fs, dd
if=/dev/zero of=(device), bulk earasers, acid baths...how gone do you
want it? 8:o)
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Baloo
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