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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