[clug] What's the fastest way of deleting files?

[Michael James]

It's partition cleanup time again,
 what's the fastest way of deleting files?

It's only 150 Gig of the files in that filesystem
 so I can't simply unmount, re-mkfs, and mount again.
That would be too quick and easy.

Partition is reiserfs3.6 if that matters.



rm -r				takes forever, gives no feedback.

find -type f -print -exec rm {} \;	still chugging after hours

rm */*/*				too many arguments



To get the hands on part over quickly
 I make a TRASH directory in the same partition
 and  "mv unwanted_dir  TRASH"

But then the TRASH needs to be emptied, trashd anyone?
Not something you'd normally need I know.


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