Hi, over the holiday period some weirdness occurred and rectifying is proving troublesome. On a USB drive I have a very deeply nested folder structure of the same repeating name which probably ultimately ends in the same name and has a few 100MB of photos in it i.e. /media/drive/2003/2003/2003 (repeat many MANY times) /2003/somephotos.jpg. Attempting to do rm -rf may be doing something (shows in htop, taking a few % of a core) but a few hours later is still not done. Looking at the properties of the top level folder in a file manager, it reads for ages trying to determine number of folders and gets to a brick wall at about 140,000 folders and kills my KDE session!
Some googling isn't really getting me anywhere, ideas like this do not finish the job after a couple of hours: ls | grep 2003 | xargs rm -rf Any suggestions on how to remove the offending folders in some quick-ish and recursive fashion are welcomed, while leaving other folders in /media alone. Secondary importance is ideas on how the situation arose in the first place might be interesting. Possible relevant factors: a 1TB USB drive encrypted via TrueCrypt receiving backups via rsync, the host machine had a power failure on the boxing day quake such that the power cable to one of the internal hard drives (containing /home) came out and left the machine in a partially useable state. Other top level folders on the same USB drive are fine. Cheers, Roger _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list Linux-users@lists.canterbury.ac.nz http://lists.canterbury.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
