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(1mh) rmf(1mh)
Name
rmf - remove folder
Syntax
rmf [ +folder ] [ -help ] [ -[no]interactive ]
Description
The command removes all of the messages within the current folder, and then removes the folder itself. If there are any files within the
folder which are not part of MH, they are not removed, and an error message is displayed.
You can specify a folder other than the current folder by using the +folder argument. If you do not specify a folder, and cannot find the
current folder, asks you whether you want to delete instead.
If the current folder is removed, it makes current.
Note that the command irreversibly deletes messages that do not have other links, so use it with caution.
If the folder being removed is a sub-folder, the parent folder becomes the new current folder, and tells you that 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.
Using to delete a read-only folder deletes the private sequence and current message information from the file, without affecting the folder
itself. If you have sub-folders within a folder, you must delete all the sub-folders before you can delete the folder itself.
Options
-help Prints a list of the valid options to this command.
-interactive
-nointeractive
Asks for confirmation before deleting a folder. By default, deletes a folder and its messages without asking for confirmation.
If you specify the -interactive option, asks if you are sure before deleting the folder. You are advised to use this option,
since when deletes a folder its contents are lost irretrievably.
Examples
This example shows how asks for confirmation when the -interactive option is used:
% rmf -interactive +test
Remove folder "test"? y
Profile Components
Path: To determine the user's Mail directory
Files
The user profile.
See Also
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