On Mon, Apr 7, 2008 at 10:16 PM, Karanbir Singh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Tanveer Singh wrote:
> > Currently I do this
> > mv somedir somedir.old
> > find somedir.old -name "*" -exec rm -rf {} \;
> > I was hoping for some "quick delete" kind of stuff.
>
> What filesystem is this on ? if its ext3 you can change your drive cache
> policy, disable index's, disable time updates etc ( there must be a few
> dozen tweaks that most distro's put in with new ext3's that could slow
> you down a bit )..
>
> Also, you might want to think about what you doing here... the find
> <somedir> with hit a directory and never return till everything under
> there is done. so perhaps start with a director really deep and work
> your way up, if you dont want to hit i/o on the machine too hard
>
> --
> Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Don't have root access, so I have to improvise.
The fastest solution which I have discovered till now is Konqueror.
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