Fastest way to delete a folder structure in Linux
The problem
Deleting a huge folder structure is a pain and can take forever. However if you want to take forever divided by 3, you can use rsync.
It seems rsync is 3 time faster when deleting a huge folder structure than rm or find because it doesn't read the files before deleting.
The trick
- Create an empty folder in
/tmp/empty_folder - Run the command:
rsync -aP --delete ./empty_folder/ ./target_folder/
Enjoy!