[Cialug] Cleaning out a network share

[Tom Pohl]

Dave, that's the alternate syntax.  Normally rm -rf is the more  
widely accepted format.

If you're worried about having to confirm each file,  \rm -rf would  
be the way to go :)

-Tom

P.S. If you don't know what these commands do, DON'T DO IT!


On Oct 25, 2006, at 5:37 PM, David Champion wrote:

> I prefer rm -fr.
>
> If it's on a linux box, I use a lot of this when I'm trying to  
> track down who's hogging all the disk space :
>
> du -sb * | sort -n
>
> -dc
>
> Daniel.Juliano at wellsfargo.com wrote:
>> We've got a network share that holds 90GB of data and has 180,000  
>> files.
>> We're trying to sort out what's exactly on the drive so that we  
>> can lock
>> directories down and clean out others.
>> Has anyone had to deal with similar before?  What tools are  
>> helpful for
>> the task?
>> I've spent the afternoon with:
>> http://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/treemap/ It's nice and works well, but  
>> I'm certain there's better out there.
>> =Dan
>> _______________________________________________
>> Cialug mailing list
>> Cialug at cialug.org
>> http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Cialug mailing list
> Cialug at cialug.org
> http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug
>