I'd like to delete an nginx cache directory, which I quickly purged by: mv cache cache.bak mkdir cache service nginx restart Now I have a cache.bak folder which has 2 million files. I'd like to delete it, without disturbing the server. A simple rm -rf cache.bak trashes the server, even the simplest HTTP response takes 16 seconds while rm is running, so I cannot do that. I tried ionice -c3 rm -rf cache.bak, but it didn't help. The server has an HDD, not an SSD, probably on an SSD these might n...
