Unable to delete LARGE folder

[Ted]

does it let you delete one file even?


-tl

On 12/07/2011 10:57 AM, Stephen W. Clarke wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm stumped with what should be a simple issue.
>
> I have a folder that due to a coding error ended up with 280,000 files in
> it. A total of about 3GB of junk.
>
> I tried to delete it using
>
> #rm -rf foldername
>
> but it produces this error:
>
> CIFS VFS: No response for cmd 50 mid 14xxx
>
> A google search suggested turning off the Opportunistic Locking with
>
> #echo 0>  /proc/fs/cifs/OplockEnabled
>
> and then re-running the rm command from above
>
> But that didn't help either.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
> Stephen
>
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