Will running multiple rm command make deleting files faster?

Asked Jan 02 '18 at 20:44

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I have 800GB of data to delete and I entered below command

rm -rf /data

On my process monitor I see rm command running but its slow. If I ran another rm -rf /data command will the deletion process be faster? Or this will make things slower. I am running this on 2 core machine.

asked Jan 02 '18 at 20:44

Maca

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A number of interesting suggestions are in [this Q&A](https://serverfault.com/q/183821/37681) – HBruijn Jan 02 '18 at 21:22
If your disks are HDD (not SSD), then running two `rm` in parallel will definitely *slow down* the system, because the HDD needs to move back and forth between two processes – porton Jan 02 '18 at 23:48
@porton I am on SSD. – Maca Jan 02 '18 at 23:50
@HBruijn This is good read. I am going to try rsync --delete – Maca Jan 02 '18 at 23:50

Will running multiple rm command make deleting files faster?

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