Can't delete events files

bigmonk · Post by **bigmonk** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 1:30 am

I had a power flicker which caused an unclean reboot and some database corruption. I got the database corruption problem fixed but there are large files in my events folder that I can't delete. When I try to remove them by rm -rf ..../events/* the computer just hangs.

I apparently have too many files in this folder. How can I delete these files?

Running Fedora 8.

ernesto · Post by **ernesto** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 1:53 pm

find . -name '*.*' | xargs rm

sfmartin · Post by **sfmartin** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 3:21 pm

The rm command usually takes a while to process when you want to delete a folder that contains a huge qty of files. I had the same situation in the past. I just ran the command and left the PC working during the night. After several minutes (maybe hours), it completed the deletion of the folder.

Regards,
Sebastian

Lee Sharp · Post by **Lee Sharp** » Tue Apr 08, 2008 7:25 pm

Look at top. It probably shows "rm" as the highest process merrily chugging along deleting a large file or directory.

nabetse_x · Post by **nabetse_x** » Sat Apr 26, 2008 3:15 pm

find -type f | grep \.jpg | xargs rm

i use that command and works nice...

yo uso ese comando y funciona muy bien...