actually I'm sorry, I take that back. I was trying to rm -rf over 1.3TB of data, composed of over 17,000 sub directories each a dozen or so files located inside.
I too had complete system lock-up when I would try deleting them (moving and copying was fine). I tried to move the directories in blocks of about 100 or so to another directory, then tried deleting those. I had the same lockup issues. The method that taigolp proposed helped a lot, but didn't completely solve my problem. While I could delete about a 100 or so directories now, I still can't delete the entire 17k directory tree without a full lock-up. for the record, I'm running jaunty 32-bit, 2.6.28-15-generic. ext4 native on a LVM volume spanned across two 1.5TB sata drives on a silicon image SATA pci card. -- Soft lockups (freezes) when deleting files from ext4 partitions on 2.6.28 https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/330824 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
