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15 questions linked to/from rm on a directory with millions of files
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delete millions of files within a directory [duplicate]
The other day I ran bleachbit on my system. I had enabled wipe disk space option in it. It took several hours and my disk space filled up completely (100GB or so). After waiting forever, I decided to ...
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directory with 980MB meta data, millions of files, how to delete it? (ext3) [duplicate]
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rm on a directory with millions of files
Hello,
So I'm stuck with this directory:
drwxrwxrwx 2 dan users 980M 2010-12-22 18:38 sessions2
The directories contents is small - ...
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Delete 10M+ files from ZFS, effectively
I have written a buggy program that has accidentally created about 30M files under /tmp. (The bug was introduced some weeks ago, and it was creating a couple of subdirectories per second.) I could ...
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Storing and backing up 10 million files on Linux
I run a website where about 10 million files (book covers) are stored in 3 levels of subdirectories, ranging [0-f]:
0/0/0/
0/0/1/
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f/f/f/
This leads to around 2400 files per directory, which is ...
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How to remove directory on NFS fileystem with an enormous number of files
A poorly tested program created a directory on an NFS share with an enormous number of files, which I need to remove.
ls -ald /home/foo
drwxrwxr-x 2 503 503 317582336 Jul 29 11:38 /home/foo
The ...
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Shrink/reset directory size?
Is there a way to shrink a directory entry?
My dovecot maildir directories have increased in size from the default 4096 to several megs, and it is messing with disk quotas.
The only way that I have ...
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Removing files takes too long
Short version: rm -rf mydir, with mydir (recursively) containing 2.5 million files, takes about 12 hours on a mostly idle machine.
More information: Most of the files being deleted are hard links to ...
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How to delete massive files via ftp or ssh?
On my servers, one of the scripts that I have been using keeps creating the blank files at root and I haven't been noticed for more than over 6 months and now total files are created more than 500,000 ...
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How to find biggest (in entries, not size) ext4 directory?
Ubuntu 10.04.3 LTS x86_64, I am seeing the following in /var/log/messages:
EXT4-fs warning (device sda3): ext4_dx_add_entry: Directory index full!
Relevant info from dumpe2fs:
Filesystem features: ...
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How do I delete a directory that has many subdirectories?
I have a directory with many subdirectories. I tried doing
rm -rf mydirectory
but it was still running after 1 hour. I have tried getting the number of subdirectories with
ls -l . | egrep -c '^-'...
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What is the fastest delete method for many directory on Linux
I have to remove many directory.
but
rm -r /data
is so slow ( about some days)
/data has
/data/a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h ....
many dirs
Does anyone know?
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speeding up deleting a large directory by running rm -rf on multiple terminals
I have this very large directory that I'm deleting with : rm - rf .
It is taking very long, so I opened up another terminal and try deleting the same directory with rm -rf parallely.
Is this ...
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Will running multiple rm command make deleting files faster?
I have 800GB of data to delete and I entered below command
rm -rf /data
On my process monitor I see rm command running but its slow. If I ran another rm -rf /data command will the deletion process ...
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How can I deal with a directory on an ext4 volume that has so many files ls won't work?
I setup a motion detection software on linux and in the process created a directory with so many jpg files in it that running "ls mydirectory" just hangs. How can I split the content into several ...
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Huge /var/log directory inode in ext3 after creating and removing many files
I have Debian Jessie, /var/log on root partition of type ext3 (rw,relatime,data=ordered). Four days ago logrotate dumped tens of thousands files, this was fixed and files deleted. After this:
# du -...
