On Fri, 2009-07-24 at 23:03 -0400, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote: > Hi All, > > Can someone tell me what these dirs are for and why they're so hard to > delete: > > [ranbir@ranbir plugin]$ pwd > /home/ranbir/.cache/gnome-mplayer/plugin > > [ranbir@ranbir plugin]$ ls -l > total 523808 > drwxr-xr-x 2 ranbir ranbir 99831808 2009-07-24 22:43 gnome-mplayeraabsvy > drwxr-xr-x 2 ranbir ranbir 107634688 2009-07-10 10:28 gnome-mplayercwgvib > drwxr-xr-x 2 ranbir ranbir 29638656 2009-07-10 10:28 gnome-mplayerjjkyiv > drwxr-xr-x 2 ranbir ranbir 101244928 2009-07-10 10:28 gnome-mplayerkaotaa > drwxr-xr-x 2 ranbir ranbir 99209216 2009-07-10 10:28 gnome-mplayerrkujaa > drwxr-xr-x 2 ranbir ranbir 98258944 2009-07-10 10:28 gnome-mplayerxnyieu > > > I don't know how they were created. So I decided to delete them, but > they don't actually get deleted. If I try an "ls", my HD grinds away > without printing any output to the screen. > > I'm assuming the dirs are full of thousands of files. So, how do I get > rid of them? Why assume? Why not just look at how many there are? > > Regards, > > Ranbir > > -- > Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu > Linux 2.6.27.25-170.2.72.fc10.x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux > 22:57:41 up 14:24, 3 users, load average: 1.06, 0.81, 1.48 > > -- ======================================================================= I've enjoyed just about as much of this as I can stand. ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
