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 alloca
I've got a machine that until recently used a ludicrously
inode-hungry tree structure containing half a million files where
it should have had (and now has) a database. Now I want to delete
the leftover files, but it occurs to me that I may be risking some
sort of IO catastrophe.
Is a niced "rm -
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