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From: David <ddavid@ican.net>
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> To see actually how fast it was deleting, I was using "df" while
> it was deleting and it said about 1 meg was deleted for every 5
> seconds.  Is this normal?  I remember how under Windows, it would
> take seconds to delete large amounts of files.  Can anyone help?
> Thanks!

To put this in perspective as pertains to win, large files also delete
in seconds on FreeBSD, but! it had taken me 1 hr last night to delete
the ports tree of a win box, and, i don't even want to talk about
defraying the drive with the ports tree.

If need be, I was "trying" to cvs the sr. and ports to update my system
using winces, due too lack of access on my friends box ( DST comes back
on Wed.'s! ) and no haw modem, but win kept crapping out with all the
small files.

Man, some people will try anything to keep there box up to date to play
with. Next time I will just get someone to beat me with a stick, same
effect, but less time to bare the punishment of such a silly idea.

Cheers

David


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