From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 22 21:38:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id VAA27509 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 21:38:45 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from luke.cpl.net (luke.cpl.net [207.67.172.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id VAA27499 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 21:38:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shawn@luke.cpl.net) Received: from localhost (shawn@localhost) by luke.cpl.net (8.8.7/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA10128 for ; Wed, 22 Oct 1997 21:38:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 22 Oct 1997 21:38:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Shawn Ramsey To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: deleted huge directory Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Does anyone have any suggestions for deleting a huge directory? The direcory is /var/news/spool/control/cancel. The directory is too large to even do a ls. If I try doing ls, it eats up all the avail. RAM(140+mb) and hangs. Anyone? I would try a wildcard, but I don't know what the filenames are. (This is a very large news server, and this directory has never been touch as far as I know.)