Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 15:11:56 +0200 From: Palle Girgensohn <girgen@partitur.se> To: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> Cc: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: deleted huge directory Message-ID: <344F4D1C.802DE3FC@partitur.se> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971023005911.29151B-100000@shell.futuresouth.com>
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Matthew D. Fuller wrote: > > 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.) > > Dear god. > If you don't mind, I'll just borrow all that space..... > Can you get a file listing by echo * > /place/some/file.list ? > > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* > | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | > * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * > | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| > * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * > | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | > *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* maybe find dirpath -exec rm {} \; will do it? just a wild guess... /palle
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