use Perl

• But how do I get rid of it? (Score:1)

  by jplindstrom (594)

  I did that once a long time ago.
  
  What's the best way to delete those files? I remember it took forever to delete them all.
  
  

  /J
  
  • Re:But how do I get rid of it? (Score:2)

    by ask (83)

    I don't think there's a super fast way. Put
    
        find /path/ -type f -mtime +7 | xargs rm
    
    or something like that into your nightly crontab to make it not go out of control. Or use a different filesystem, like MySQL.
    
      - ask

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    • Re:But how do I get rid of it? (Score:1)

      by Dom2 (2981)

      But directories don't shrink. So you'll still be left with a 32Mb directory. The best way to do this is mv lock lock.old && mkdir lock. Then you can delete the lock.old directory at your leisure.

      Of course, this assumes you can get the system into a quiescent state... If not, your way is far superior. :-)

      -Dom
      • Re:But how do I get rid of it? (Score:2)

        by ask (83)

        Ah, yes. I didn't think of the 32MB directory entry. If I really wanted to save every byte I'd the mv "foo foo.old" etc as you said.

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