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Date: Thu, 8 May 2008 19:29:11 +0200 (CEST)
Subject: Re: Deleting large files
From: "Christian Kujau" <lists@nerdbynature.de>
To: "Morten Welinder" <mwelinder@gmail.com>
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On Wed, May 7, 2008 21:49, Morten Welinder wrote:
> deleting large files, say on the order of 4.6GB, takes approximately
> forever.

What filesystem are you talking about? How long is "forever"? Also the
kernel version would be interesting...

C.
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