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

[Robert]

Its possible that noatime on the FS will help as well.
It could be updating the atimes on all the directories as it traverses 
through them...


Damien Elmes wrote:

> Michael James <clug at james.st> writes:
> 
> 
>>It's partition cleanup time again,
>> what's the fastest way of deleting files?
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> 
> [...]
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>>rm -r				takes forever, gives no feedback.
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> rm -rv will make rm display the files as they're being deleted, and
> will be faster than a find+xargs solution.
> 
> But perhaps the question is why you want to see all the files in the
> first place? If you want to have a rough idea of the progress, you
> could open up another terminal and type 'watch df' instead.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Damien