On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:25:13AM -0700, Raquel wrote:
> On Wed, 18 Mar 2009 16:37:53 +0000
> kj <koffiejunkielistlur...@koffiejunkie.za.net> wrote:
> > I discovered a Maildir on my server with 4+ million mails in. The
> > result of a cronjob that runs every minute - this has been fixed.
> >
> > Now, I've been running the usual find . -type f -exec rm {} \;
> > but this is going at about 700,000 per day. Would simply doing an
> > rm -rf on the Maildir be quicker? Or is there a better way?
>
> Why not # cd $Maildir
> then # rm -R *
don't do that; that's asking the shell to expand '*' and then
pass the list (4+ million items!) to 'rm'. it'll either truncate
the list (and you'll have to run it several times), or it won't
run at all (complaining of 'argument list too long')
--Rob*
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