I noticed that but it doesn’t appear to allow directory deletetions.  There also doesn’t appear to be any help for this command like many of the priv set advanced commands.  It didn’t like “rm –rf /vol/vol0/foo” or any other variation I could try.

Jeff Mery, MCP

National Instruments

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From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] On Behalf Of rbaus@swbell.net
Sent: Friday, August 27, 2004 10:33 AM
To: toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: Re: Mass data deletion

There is a "rm" command in the "advanced" set of commands.

-Rob

jeff.mery@ni.com wrote:

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.  Its 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).

BTWThis is a CIFS-only filer.