01-20-2010
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Originally Posted by
amity
Hi Gurus
I am facing a problem, there is a folder called /a where there are lots of files which are occupying space anything between 30 GB to 100 GB as I am not able to check the space occupied by that folder through "du -sh /a" command as I don't see any output after more than 1 hour of running the command, I believe that it hung. Even I don't able to see the files listing after more than half an hour through ls -ltr command then I cancel the command. At the same tine I am 100% sure that files are contiously creating in that folder & every thing is at SAN storage level though LUN.
Now my main problem is that I need to free some space from that folder & we have made a policy that folder must contain last 6 month files but I believe that folder has files more than 1.5 year old. Now I need to delete the files. If I try to delete the files through find command at once which are older than last six month , it goes into hung & didn't delete the files
Kindly help me in this regard
hi.,
Maybe you have directories within directories and find is going into it and getting lost somewhere. lol
so add -maxdepth 1 to your find command and see it it doesnt make you wait for hours (choke). If it works out then go ahead and make it 2,3 etc. ..
Regards
Gaurav.
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RMF(1) [nmh-1.5] RMF(1)
NAME
rmf - remove an nmh folder
SYNOPSIS
rmf [+folder] [-interactive | -nointeractive] [-version] [-help]
DESCRIPTION
Rmf removes all of the messages (files) within the specified (or default) folder, and then removes the folder (directory) itself.
If there are any files within the folder which are not a part of nmh, they will not be removed, and an error will be produced. If the
folder is given explicitly or the -nointeractive option is given, then the folder will be removed without confirmation. Otherwise, the
user will be asked for confirmation. If rmf can't find the current folder, for some reason, the folder to be removed defaults to `+inbox'
(unless overridden by user's profile entry "Inbox") with confirmation.
If the folder being removed is a subfolder, the parent folder will become the new current folder, and rmf will produce a message telling
the user this has happened. This provides an easy mechanism for selecting a set of messages, operating on the list, then removing the list
and returning to the current folder from which the list was extracted.
If rmf s used on a read-only folder, it will delete all the (private) sequences (i.e., "atr-seq-folder" entries) for this folder from your
context without affecting the folder itself.
Rmf irreversibly deletes messages that don't have other links, so use it with caution.
FILES
$HOME/.mh_profile The user profile
PROFILE COMPONENTS
Path: To determine the user's nmh directory
Current-Folder: To find the default current folder
Inbox: To find the default inbox
SEE ALSO
rmm(1)
DEFAULTS
`+folder' defaults to the current folder, usually with confirmation
`-interactive' if +folder' not given, `-nointeractive' otherwise
CONTEXT
Rmf will set the current folder to the parent folder if a subfolder is removed; or if the current folder is removed, it will make "inbox"
current. Otherwise, it doesn't change the current folder or message.
BUGS
Although intuitively one would suspect that rmf works recursively, it does not. Hence if you have a sub-folder within a folder, in order
to rmf the parent, you must first rmf each of the children.
MH.6.8 11 June 2012 RMF(1)