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Deleting contents of a disc

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I need to completely delete the contents of the folder /data

Obviously I launched rm-rf * but it's been running from a long time (I have many large files for a total of nearly 1 TB).
Given that the folder in question is a mount point for an array of disks in a RAID5 and, in essence, is a disk (/dev/md0) is there a faster way to delete all the data without destroying the array?

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answered 3 Years ago singerrupt · Accepted Answer

Assuming you are not concerned about someone using recovery tools to get the data back ( and if you are you shouldn't be using rm ), then just format the disk.

mkfs.ext4 /dev/md0

Also it sounds like you are currently using ext3, which takes quite a while to delete large files. In the future, you should use ext4 which does not have this problem.