Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 01:16:35 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: deleted huge directory Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971023011454.29151C-100000@shell.futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971022231126.26455B-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.) > > > > 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 ? > > Can anyone tell me exactly what this directory is for? This months > Boardwatch in ISP Tech Talk, the author recommends deleting this directory > daily. And this has never been deleted, as far as I know. Or it has been a > very long time. Does the news server read this directory during > news.dailt? Expires have been taking FOREVER lately. I suspect this may be > a reason. (Sorry for the off-topicness, but how to delete the directory is > ontopic. :) ) Don't know if this helps, but the reason I suggested echo'ing * (all files, of course) into a file is to see if you could do this: rm 'cat /place/some/file/list' or something similar; I'm not exactly an expert when it comes to piping stuff from a file. Someone else? Can this be done, and could it work? *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | 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 | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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