On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 1:57 PM, Tanveer Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a directory called "somedir" > Inside this directory there are thousands of subdirectories(20,000+) > and even more number of small files(100,000+) > If I do a \rm -rf somedir, it takes hours. > Is there a way to quickly delete this directory. > Currently I use Konqueror and it does the job more quickly, but still > its pretty slow.
1) You can run the process in the background so that you can still do other work. OR 2) use the --directory option which will unlink the directory even if it's non empty. But in this case the system will recursively unlink all the files the next time you run fsck and you'll have to wait a long time then. Basically if you want to do something NOW which expects the directory to not be there, go with option 2. Else stick to the usual option 1. -- Anupam _______________________________________________ ilugd mailinglist -- [email protected] http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd Next Event: http://freed.in - February 22-24, 2008 Archives at: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.user-groups.linux.delhi http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
