11-05-2012
Hey rehantayyab82,
If the find takes a long time just to show files, my guess is that you directory is big.
There may be a race condition as well. Some file looks like they disappear between the time they're detected by find and deleted by rm (so the warning).
How big is a req file on average. Maybe you cannot expect your operation to free much space.
Good luck
Santiago
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