Patrick Hsieh wrote:
Hello list, 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>?
an almost instantaneous workaround could be mv <directory> <directory>.dead rm -rf <directory>.dead & # note the ampersand this will not free the space immediately, but <directory> will disappear from the file system very quickly. pietro. --To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org