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No, I would not start it under ktrace. I would start rm plain and then attach `truss -p <pid>` for a while.

Rebooted to single-user mode I can start a rm -rf ocd-data/, but I'm not quite sure how to proceed with ktrace. Does this look right: # ktrace -i rm -rf ocd-data/? Based on the ktrace man page that seems like a good start, but if there's a...

While rm is running you should attach truss to it to see whether it removes any files at all. If so you can just chip away piece by piece.

No new files have been written to this directory for a long while. I am interested in how/why ZFS is broken, but I'll readily confess that I may lack the skills to debug completely. This was a data processing project - I would definitely...

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Which is sort of funny. The first 64-bit SPARC to be released didn't even come from Sun, it came from their coopetitor (no, that's not a spelling error!) HaL, also known as "Andy Heller's circus". Lots of our family's friends are from Sun and...

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Well, not exactly, it was way more complicated than that. For example, in ex-Yugoslavia double-entry accounting was not only the norm, but it was also required by law, because one couldn't count workers salaries as expenses in Socialist society...

:oops: If anybody had seen you owned such ...'a brown thing' as your computer as a west-pupil before 1989 chances had been good you might got bought a 'real computer' just for having pity on you. In theory. Reality: Eastern computers were almost...

It depends on the crux of the issue. Take a "simple" example of a VPN (OpenVPN, Wireguard, IPSec, etc), it can go in "Networking" if it's network related (routing, TCP/IP, etc), "Firewalls" if the issue is firewall related, "Web and Network...

hi cracauer@ - it's hard to say: rm -rf never gets far enough to hit swap. I just started a # rm -rvx ocd-data/; I'll keep an eye on it. Thanks for your help!

Thanks! Those are great examples, and I really like and appreciate them as I'm of opinion that regex should be first (okay, maybe second) thing to learn for anyone interested in Unix or Linux, but there is another more important thing – KISS...

Apparently mounting encrypted datasets by zfs-allow'ed user, vfs.usermount=1 must be set in any case, and, unlike unencrypted datasets, the dataset mount point must be owned by the user. Example: To make "usermount" permanent: /etc/sysctl.conf...

Do you have swapspace and does it fill up when you do a `rm -rf` on the dir?

hi Erichans - only 12GB, and yes, bare metal.

I take it that you're running bare metal? How much memory does your system have?

Use the -f option with ls to prevent sorting. You can try "rm -rvx ocd-data" to see what it prints -- you should see some progress or error messages. The -x option to avoid crossing mounts. You can ^C rm any time so this is just to see what it...

I probably should have said "at least 35K". 🤦‍♂️ Yes - no new files are being written to the directory. root@dustbin:/astral # df -h astral Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on astral 1.7T 239G 1.5T 14%...

PowerPC is tier 2 on 13 and 14, which are still supported versions. The others, yeah, might need to remove them. But it's not "promoting" anything, it's just an explanation of what can be posted in that section.

Variations on a theme. For the awk minded: awk -Fpcm '/Plantronics/ { print substr($2,1,1) }' If, however, one has a lot of pcm devices, because, well, one does :) , then a variation on covacat's solution: sed -nE '/Plantronics/...

Frode, the one and only developer of FS-UAE, went AWOL for a few years. I specifically meant the FS-UAE project. Aminet is still around with new uploads. The Amiga community itself is still very much alive and kicking. There's even some new...

hey eternal_noob - that may be a future step! Thanks for the suggestion!

f4##! You really have a problem. that's not 35k files, that's more kind of 31M - that's in deed a lot more I had dealt with. Since this dir was created on Feb 2nd, a quick calculation tells me that's (in average) 138974 files per day, which was...

Maybe try with a live cd, I had a similar situation, but with UFS, and starting with Nomad boot I managed to do a nice rm -rf

For a while I thought the project died, but Frode made an appearance again. And I see a new version got released recently. If I have some time this weekend I'll see if I can update the port. Maybe I'll take a stab at putting a fs-uae-devel port...

Maybe do it the other way round. Move all the stuff you want to keep elsewhere and then format the filesystem.

Well thanks to everyone. Several things I hadn't been able to pin down and I'd long been avoiding spamd for no particular reason. Running opensmtpd here; very, very low traffic. Mostly I'll have to just consider this one of the costs of doing...

Could you please elaborate on that?

Maybe do it the other way round. Move all the stuff you want to keep elsewhere and then format the filesystem.

Yes they did. It's on my laptop. A full SPARC, with test cases and all. Interesting read for those who read clay tablets, ahem, verilog.

This should be the best one. Consider "find /dir/ -print -delete" so you can watch the output as it goes. Just one access of the file metadata, and doesn't have to launch extra processes for every file. Find to xargs rm means passing thousands...

hi SirDice - thanks for the response. thanks, mro - I appreciate the response. Edit: RussellASC, thank you, too, for the suggestion and thought behind the command choice. I'll post back when an update shortly. Globbing the find... suggestions...

Looks lile it's the T1 and T2, at least I have archives for them both. I can't tell what is in them, they are huge and I currently don't have the disc space.

How does devel/pijul compare to Git and Mercurial for DVCS (Distributed Version Control System)? Aside from Pijul having lots of dependencies, and being in Rust. Pijul uses math for comparison and revision control. It seems like Fossil would be...

find | xargs is usually better but in some cases wont work (when the absolute / relative to start point path is too long) i tried this i=0;while mkdir dirname$i;do cd dirname$i;touch filename$i;i=$(($i+1));echo -n $i.;done DO NOT TRY THAT ON...

find .... | xargs rm is typically a lot more efficient than trying to delete individual files one by one. Also note that if the pool is full, or almost full, performance is horrendous, even for deleting files.

thanks USerID - that's a helpful link, but sadly doesn't really provide any extra information or suggestion for the problem at hand.

Yes they did. It's on my laptop. A full SPARC, with test cases and all. Interesting read for those who read clay tablets, ahem, verilog.

Hi Maturin - I think that may be part of what happened here: too many args (or files) for the rm command. I don't remember the syntax of the file names in the directory, which prevents your helpful suggestion, and ls > dir_contents.txt won't ever...

I once also had the problem a directory contained too many files they cannot be removed all with one simple rm anymore. (I'm not quite sure anymore - it happened six or seven years ago, and I forgot almost all the details: how I got to this...

hi ralphbsz - thanks for your response! ) ls -ld ocd-data drwxr-xr-x 2 bridger bridger 31408165 Feb 2 2025 ocd-data/ No processes are changing the directory, and, to the best of my knowledge, no reslivering. It definitely seems like...

Look up the IP addresses with whois. IP address is registered to Hetzner (popular cloud/hosting provider in Germany). This address is registered to Zhongguanchun (technology district in Beijing) operating from the Seychelles. Dodgy. As others...

And what does that find command output? The speed of the find command should be at least many hundreds, if not thousands of file names per second. How big is the file system? How big is the directory, in the sense: If you stat it (for example...

hi covacat - no, it doesn't.

does find ocd-data finish ?

I use a few different VC's for different purposes. For single files, as the lowest common denominator I use RCS. Works great with Emacs auto-save hooks to keep versions of single files forever. I use this with simple scripts and Orgmode files...

Just sharing some first impressions and testing of this work: https://wiki.freebsd.org/SummerOfCode2025Projects/VMMAcceleratorSupportForQEMU As far as I understand, the work is nearing completion and the more people test it, the more chances...

Sun were already done when oracle bought them up. Linux and X86 were already killing the unix workstation market, which was Sun's original thing, so Sun diversified into servers, where again they were competing against the odds against Intel...