Re: Delete 4 million files

[Paul E Condon <pecondon@mesanetworks.net>]

On 2009-03-20_10:13:50, Richard Hector wrote:
> 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 :-)
> 

OP's last post was two (2) days ago. Are we beating a dead horse here? ;-0

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