On Thu, 2009-03-19 at 14:03 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > jc wrote: > > > > rm -rf --verbose to see what is being done > > > > > yeah, but that can slow things up tremendously - whatever is being > written to becomes a bottleneck > > you might try: > > rm -rf --verbose >some_file > > that would run a lot faster and you can always cat the file to see > what's going on (or tail) Preferably with some_file on a different disk :-) Richard