Top post because it is OT, but related. Yesterday I had occasion to remove some old data from my system. I had a backup copy, and the data was all on a single partition. I could have simply rewritten the file system with mke2fs, but I decided, instead, to use rm -rf * at the top level of the file structure. There were about 25million files on an 7 GB partition on a 60 GB IDE drive. It took rm a little over an hour to unlink it all.
(Yes, I know that unlinking doesn't get rid of the data. I wiped it because I didn't want to leave it in place and forget that it is the old data of which I have a perfectly good archival copy. Not security, but good housekeeping.) On 2009-03-25_15:34:54, Mike Castle wrote: > On Wed, Mar 25, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Emanoil Kotsev <delop...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Just curious - why would you use sort before deleting something? > > You wouldn't, that was the point. > > Someone was trying to turn that OFF for find; but find doesn't do > that, so there was nothing to turn off. > > > On the other hand, ls and the shells both sort by default, so there > may have been some confusion there. > > mrc > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > > -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
