Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 19:57:26 +0800 (WST) From: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au> To: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: deleted huge directory Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971023195649.22343A-100000@odyssey.apana.org.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971022213636.10104A-100000@luke.cpl.net>
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On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, 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.) Try: rm -r /var/news/spool/control/cancel This will remove the directory and its contents. Regards, d. +-------------------------------------------------------+ | Dean Hollister, | deanh@iinet.net.au | | Perth, Western Australia. | dean@odyssey.apana.org.au | +-------------------------------------------------------+
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