RE: OT - removing 25000 files !!

From: Manning, Stephen (calanais) <Stephen.Manning_at_calanais.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 17:00:09 +0100
Message-Id: <10625.117460@fatcity.com>

Wow zapping the filesystem seems a bit extreme!

My alternative to removing the files would be to copy any files you wanted to keep (if any) to a new temp directory, removing the original directory and then renaming the temp directory to the original name. This would take care of any inode issues.

HTH -----Original Message-----
From: Gogala, Mladen [mailto:MGogala_at_oxhp.com] Sent: 20 September 2000 17:11
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: OT - removing 25000 files !!

If the directory is in, for example, '/home' filesystem, then the following will take care of the excess files:
$su
$umount /home
$newfs `grep "/home" /etc/vfstab|cut -f1`

All the files in the given subdirectory of the "/home" directory Received on Wed Sep 20 2000 - 11:00:09 CDT