On Mon, 4 Dec 2000, Justin B Rye wrote: > Is a niced "rm -rf" as safe as I'm going to get, or is it worth > messing about with "while sleep 1 do stopafter..."?
If your hardware is in good working order you can easily just do rm -rf. Probably no need even to nice it, nice only affects CPU allocation and not I/O allocation. So if the disk is heavily loaded production system you are going to want to do it during off-peak hours.
