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This is the only solution that worked: Run rm -Rf bigdirectory several times. I had a directory with thousands of millions of subdirectories and files. I couldn’t even run ls or find or rsync in that directory, because it ran out of memory. The command rm -Rf quit many times (out of memory) only deleting part of the billions of files. But after many retries it finally did the job. Seems to be the only solution if running out of memory is the problem.

erik
– erik

2014-04-09 13:01:29 +00:00
Commented Apr 9, 2014 at 13:01

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