Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 18:19:50 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Gordon Henderson <gordon@drogon.net> Cc: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: deleted huge directory Message-ID: <19971023181950.01356@lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.971023092444.14037A-100000@unicorn>; from Gordon Henderson on Thu, Oct 23, 1997 at 09:39:55AM %2B0100 References: <19971023155733.51272@lemis.com> <Pine.LNX.3.95.971023092444.14037A-100000@unicorn>
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On Thu, Oct 23, 1997 at 09:39:55AM +0100, Gordon Henderson wrote: > On Thu, 23 Oct 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > >> On Wed, Oct 22, 1997 at 09:38:52PM -0700, Shawn Ramsey wrote: >>> 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.) >> >> Doesn't rm -rf work? Otherwise you could try >> >> find dir | xargs rm -rf > > I do the following to clear this from time to time > > cd /var/news/spool/control > mv cancel cancel.old > > (then a new one gets created and news keeps on going) > > cd cancel.old > ls -f > /var/tmp/cancel.rm > xargs rm -f < /var/tmp/cancel.rm This is unnecessarily complicated. Together, they're approximately the same as what I suggested above. You certainly don't need to store the output of ls in a file. > -- > This Gordon Henderson \ MIME mail? No thanks. > is gordon@drogon.net \ "Learn the words!" > and yes, Drogon *is* an anagram of Gordon! \ The Patrician; Ankh-Morpork. Careful there, your complete name is a treasure trove of anagrams :-) Greg
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