Date: Sun, 01 Jul 2018 17:24:56 -0500 From: Paul Schmehl <paul.schmehl@gmail.com> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Problem deleting files Message-ID: <D5D87E9B8DAF0105AF7025D5@Pauls-MacBook-Pro.local> In-Reply-To: <20180701223144.d331ae10.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <85B4CFC22AC0CA70B917D42D@Pauls-MacBook-Pro.local> <20180701223144.d331ae10.freebsd@edvax.de>
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--On July 1, 2018 at 10:31:44 PM +0200 Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > On Sun, 01 Jul 2018 14:13:30 -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote: >> I have a problem with a directory full of files that I can't seem to >> delete. [...] >> If I try to delete that specific filename, it seems to work. (Running rm >> twice returns no such file the second time.) Yet the file count remains >> the same. > > Is this on UFS or ZFS? > > If UFS, unmount the partition and perform a "fsck -f" for > that partition. In worst case, do it twice. > The problem is, I'm working remotely on a production server. Unmounting /var would bring a lot of things to a screeching halt, wouldn't it? The process that Yasuhiro suggested is working. It's just taking an interminably long period of time. I'm down to just over 4 million files now. I'm going to let it run overnight and see where we're at tomorrow. Paul Schmehl Independent Researcher
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