Questions tagged [rm]
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rm on a directory with millions of files
Background: physical server, about two years old, 7200-RPM SATA drives connected to a 3Ware RAID card, ext3 FS mounted noatime and data=ordered, not under crazy load, kernel 2.6.18-92.1.22.el5, uptime ...
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How to make `rm` faster on ext3/linux?
I have ext3 filesystem mounted with default options. On it I have some ~ 100GB files.
Removal of any of such files takes long time (8 minutes) and causes a lot of io traffic, which increases load on ...
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How do I prevent accidental rm -rf /*?
I just ran rm -rf /* accidentally, but I meant rm -rf ./* (notice the star after the slash).
alias rm='rm -i' and --preserve-root by default didn't save me, so are there any automatic safeguards for ...
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Is there a way to delete 100GB file on Linux without thrashing IO / load?
I have a huge log file I need to delete on a production web server. I'm worried it'll bring the system to a crawl if I rm it on Linux. Any brilliant ideas?
Update:
Filesystem: ext3
Partition: /var (...
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Cannot delete folder with rm -rf. Error: device or resource busy
I'm trying to delete /var/www/html but I'm getting this error:
rm: cannot remove `html': Device or resource busy
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cannot remove file, Device or resource busy
I tried removing a file. The most relevant answer can be found here, but I found no luck. Here is the original problem:
maxgitt@mgpc:~$ sudo rm -rf /var/lib/docker/
rm: cannot remove '/var/lib/docker/...
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Can I recover from "rm /*"?
I'm running Debian... And, I accidentally ran "rm /*" as root (hurray!) - luckily I didn't use -r, so the dirs are still intact. However, when trying to boot, I get...
run-init: /sbin/init: No such ...
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I have deleted /etc/rc.d/ dirs, how can I restore them?
I have accidentally deleted /etc/rc.d and /etc/rc0.d folders which resulted deletion of init.d and other related folders.
1.What is the use of /etc/rc.d, rc, rc.d, rc0.d, rc1.d, rc2.d.......rc6.d and ...