Re: Performance of rm -rf

Doug, On Tue, Jan 27, 2015 at 1:23 PM, Douglas Coup wrote: > For example, deleting a 1.79 Gb directory tree with the DOS rmdir /s command > takes less than 1 minute. The same deletion > with the Cygwin rm -rf command takes 16 minutes. I've noticed something similar -- that the DOS copy command

Performance of rm -rf

Hello Cygwin community. Back in November I had to replace my hard disk and re-install. Since then I've noticed that if I use rm -rf to delete a directory tree, the performance is significantly slower than before. For example, deleting a 1.79 Gb directory tree with the DOS rmdir /s command ta