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From: Dean Hollister <dean@odyssey.apana.org.au>
To: Shawn Ramsey <shawn@luke.cpl.net>
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Subject: Re: deleted huge directory
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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.)

Try:

rm -r /var/news/spool/control/cancel

This will remove the directory and its contents.

Regards,

d.

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