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I had this very surprising situation recently, while trying to delete folders containing many files (think code repo checkout with some 10 thousands files):
When I tried to do this via command line as I normally would with
rm -rf
I waited for quite a while (say a minute?) without it finishing...On the other hand, when deleting folders of the same size in nautilus file browser, the delete was instantaneous - and not only so in the GUI, but the folder was also gone in the FS, as a
ls
on the terminal showed me.
So how can this be? Doesn't nautilus just execute 'normal' rm
? Or is it equipped with some way of dealing with large tasks in the background?
1That was sort of obvious, now I feel stupid. :) – fgysin reinstate Monica – 2013-10-10T13:57:15.547