will ryder wrote:
I'm assuming that you're talking about the mount point of your attached storage.I have a SMB/CIF connection to NetApp storage. On the storage space is about 250Gb of files.When I run the following command to remove the files, in the root of mounted directory, rm -R *This causes the server to reboot. Today using konqueror when I looked at the properties of a folder, it crashed the server and causing it to reboot.
Typing rm -R * in your root directory is guaranteed to hose your server (and having done that, once, by mistake, thinking I was in another directory, I make a point of using full paths whenever using a rm -R command).
Which leads to a few suggestions: 1. try rm -R /<mount point>/*2. since this looks like a 1-time event (how often do you wipe an entire server), delete a few directories at a time, until you're done
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