rsync --delete

[Kevin Korb]

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I thought of something else if it must be rsync that is used...

rsync -a --delete --exclude='*' --delete-excluded /anywhere/
/stuff/to/delete/

That would empty the target dir regardless of what is in the source dir.

I would still like to hear how that is any different than rm.

On 04/16/2015 11:28 AM, Ken Chase wrote:
> problem is he's trying to rsync into the target dir and have the 
> side effect of delete. so an empty dir would necessarily need to
> be in the target of course and thus created there, triggering the
> quota block.
> 
> he tried to avoid this by using device files then 'blocking all
> device files' but i think rsync figures out first there's nothing
> to do, so it just stops and doesnt do the delete. wonder if
> --delete-first would help there perhaps.
> 
> however, this is a REALLY obtuse way of running rm. unless of
> course he's trying to inject some kinda options into a script that
> can only run rsync or something wonky like that.
> 
> /kc
> 
> 
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 11:23:59AM -0400, Kevin Korb said: 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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