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Is there a faster way to remove a directory then simply submitting rm -r -f *directory* ? I am asking this because our daily cross-platform builds are really huge (e.g. 4GB per build). So the harddisks on some of the machines are frequently running out of space. This is namely the case for our AIX and Solaris platforms. Maybe there are 'special' commands for directory remove on these platforms? PASTE-EDIT (moved my own separate answer into the question): I am generally wondering why 'rm -r -f' is so slow. Doesn't 'rm' just need to modify the '..' or '.' files to de-allocate filesystem entries. something like mv *directory* /dev/null would be nice.
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