[Gluster-users] Quickest way to delete many small files

[Stephan von Krawczynski]

On Wed, 12 Jun 2013 15:26:46 +0100
Pete Smith <pete at realisestudio.com> wrote:

> Hi
> 
> We've got a directory with approx 1 million files. Mac user ... grr
> 
> Is there a quick and dirty way to remove them?
> 
> I was going with:
> 
> ls | xargs rm
> 
> but maybe rsync -a --delete empty/ full/
> 
> would be less expensive?
> 
> This is on a distributed replicated volume.
> 
> Any pointers appreciated!

Admin question ;-)

mv <dir> <tempdirname>
mkdir <dir>
rm -rf <tempdirname>



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Regards,
Stephan