Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 16:14:31 +0930 (CST) From: Kristian Kennaway <kkennawa@physics.adelaide.edu.au> To: shawn@luke.cpl.net (Shawn Ramsey) Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: deleted huge directory Message-ID: <9710230644.AA12343@bragg> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971022213636.10104A-100000@luke.cpl.net> from "Shawn Ramsey" at Oct 22, 97 09:38:52 pm
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> > Does anyone have any suggestions for deleting a huge directory? The > direcory is /var/news/spool/control/cancel. The directory is too large to > even do a ls. If I try doing ls, it eats up all the avail. RAM(140+mb) and > hangs. Anyone? I would try a wildcard, but I don't know what the filenames > are. (This is a very large news server, and this directory has never been > touch as far as I know.) How about a good old rm -rf /var/news/spool/control followed by a mkdir /var/news/spool/control/cancel to recreate the directory? You might also be able to get a list of files with doing an "echo *" in the directory - thats a little trick I picked up somewhere which hasnt actually proved useful until now :-) Kris
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