Does anyone know of a good way to delete a large amount of data from a filer? We have an F940c with a single 2.5TB volume. One of the qtrees on that volume was used as a temporary data store. It's no longer needed so I need to get rid of the 126GB of data (and ~4 million files).
Is there a better/easier/faster way to do this than selecting the folder from the admin share and hitting Shift+Del? It takes an awfully long time for a client to scan the directory tree and start deleting files (even with GbE).
BTW.This is a CIFS-only filer.
Thanks in advance,
Jeff Mery, MCP
National Instruments
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