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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 ...

Possible Duplicate: 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 - ...

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/ ... f/f/f/ This leads to around 2400 files per directory, which is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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: ...

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 '^-'...

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?

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 -...