Re: Delete 4 million files

["David A. Parker" <dparker@utica.edu>]

kj wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> This might seem like a stupid question, but I'm hoping there's a better 
> way.
>
> I discovered a Maildir on my server with 4+ million mails in.  The 
> result of a cronjob that runs every minute - this has been fixed.
>
> Now, I've been running the usual find . -type f -exec rm {} \;
> but this is going at about 700,000 per day.  Would simply doing an rm 
> -rf on the Maildir be quicker?  Or is there a better way?

I'm pretty sure that deleting the entire directory with "rm -rf" should 
be a lot faster.

    - Dave

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Dave Parker
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