[GoLUG] Gigantic deletion

[Hendrik Boom]

On Fri, Jan 02, 2026 at 02:12:41PM -0500, Steve Litt wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> My 6.9TB /scratch partition got up to 83% full, which triggers alarm
> bells even on spinning rust. In my investigation I found that a backup
> set , of /home/slitt, on /scratch, contained thousands, tens of
> thousands, or hundreds of thousands of files, in one deep directory
> under .wine. Because this was a year old backup, I performed:
> 
> rm -Rf .wine
> 
> This mass deletion has been running for about 14 hours. 

In siyuations like this I would be inclined to copy the files
I want to keep elsewhere and then reformat te entire partition.

(I suppose this could be a reason for keeping different kinds
of files in different paetitions -- a subject of a different
discussion.)
> 

-- hendrik