Hi All, I have a query regarding t

[smitanav]

Hi All,
I have a query regarding the deleting of many files in a fast way.
Over the last few days, one program malfunctioned and when i noticed , it had created a log directory with nearly 2 million files in it.
I'm using find and rm to delete the files , but from last 10 hours still the deletion is going on.

Is there any quicker/dirtier way to delete these files. Running on Solaris 8

Thanks in advance
smitanav

 

[bi]

Here are some thoughts: (this has happened to me, too)

Can you do an rmdir -r and then recreate the log directory? (That would probably still take a long time.)

If it were a filesystem with just that directory in it, you could also umount the filesystem, remove the filesystem, and then recreate it.

Or create a temporary filesystem, do a mv on the directory where the logs are, then umount the temporary filesystem and delete the filesystem.

 

[tarn]

Be VERY careful with this but you could just 0 the files first with cd: /into/the/full/directory/ then do: > *.log

This should just empty the files, then you can remove them, not sure if this will be any quicker?

Good Luck,
Laurie.

 

[smitanav]

hi Bi and Tarn ,


i will try for this ! once i kept it deleting and it was utilizing 60% of CPU .i kept it deleting for more than 24 hours.

My server is online with telecomm system. so i was afraid to keep it like this.

let me try and will let you know the results.

thanks in advance
Smitanav

 

[smitanav]

Thanks alot to both of you

your suggestion worked out . it took some 18 hours to delete all files

thanks a lot

Smitanav

 

[tarn]

I'm pleased you were able to resolve it.

Laurie.