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Re: Delete 4 million files



Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
In <[🔎] 49C93FD1.7040107@net153.net>, Sam Leon wrote:
Most everyone here is recommending just plain old rm -rf

I might add that once you start the rm process that you find the pid of
it and then lower its priority with renice so that away your whole
system won't be slowed down while it works.

Why re-nice?  Just nice it to begin with:
nice -n 15 rm -rf
(Can also be chained with ionice if you like.)

ah true.

Sam


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