Re: Delete 4 million files

["Mr. Wang Long" <mr.wang.long@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 00:37, kj
<koffiejunkielistlurker@koffiejunkie.za.net> 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?
>
> Thanks
>
> --kj
>
One of my frinds told me that this would be much faster:
rsync --delete-before -a -H -q /an_empty_dir/ /your_dest_dir