directory with 980MB meta data, millions of files, how to delete it? (ext3)
- by Alexandre
Hello,
So I'm stuck with this directory:
drwxrwxrwx 2 dan users 980M 2010-12-22 18:38 sessions2
The directories contents is small - just millions of tiny little files.
I want to wipe it from the filesystem but have been unable to. My first try was:
find sessions2 -type f -delete
and
find sessions2 -type f -print0 | xargs -0 rm -f
but had…