rsync --delete

[Kevin Korb]

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I don't understand what is wrong with rm either.

But if you must have an empty directory is there a tmpfs where you can
make one?  Is there already an empty one like /var/empty?

On 04/16/2015 10:13 AM, Ken Chase wrote:
> Wow, it took me a few seconds to figure out what you were trying to
> do.
> 
> What's wrong with rm?
> 
> Also I think trying to leverage the side of disqualifying all
> source files just to get the delete effect (very clever but
> somewhat obtuse!) risks creating a temporary file of some kind in
> the target at the start of the operation, and if you cant even
> mkdir then that exceeds disk quota immediately and fails.
> 
> /kc
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 12:20:52PM +0300, ????? ?????? said:
>> Hi, Rsync.
>> 
>> I want to help rsink delete a folder with a large number of files
>> and folders. Tried this: rsync -a --no-D --delete /dev/null
>> /home/rc-41/data/000000000000061/2015-04-01-07-04/ skipping
>> non-regular file "null"
>> 
>> rsync -a --no-D --delete /dev/zero
>> /home/rc-41/data/000000000000061/2015-04-01-07-04/ skipping
>> non-regular file "zero"
>> 
>> 
>> That's how it turns out rsync -a --delete /empty_folder/
>> /home/rc-41/data/000000000000061/2015-04-01-07-04/ But this
>> option is not satisfied as if the disk is 100% filled to create
>> an empty folder does not work
>> 
>> mkdir /empty folder/ Disk quota ekstseeded
>> 
>> Got an error.
>> 
>> 
>> find /home/rc-41/data/000000000000061/2015-04-01-07-04/ -delete I
>> know not suitable
>> 
>> rm -rf /home/rc-41/data/000000000000061/2015-04-01-07-04/ is also
>> not suitable
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> How to do it differently?
>> 
>> 
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