Date: Thu, 23 Oct 1997 01:00:35 -0500 (CDT) From: "Matthew D. Fuller" <fullermd@futuresouth.com> To: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: deleted huge directory Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.971023005911.29151B-100000@shell.futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.971022213636.10104A-100000@luke.cpl.net>
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On Wed, 22 Oct 1997, Shawn Ramsey wrote: > 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.) Dear god. If you don't mind, I'll just borrow all that space..... Can you get a file listing by echo * > /place/some/file.list ? *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | FreeBSD; the way computers were meant to be | * "The only reason I'm burning my candle at both ends, is * | that I haven't figured out how to light the middle yet."| * fullermd@futuresouth.com :-} MAtthew Fuller * | http://keystone.westminster.edu/~fullermd | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*
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