The data=writeback mount option deserves to be tried, in order to prevent journaling of the file system. This should be done only during the deletion time, there is a risk however if the server is being shutdown or rebooted during the delete operation. According to this page, Some applications show very significant speed improvement when … Read more
One of the tricks I follow is to put # in the beginning while using the rm command. root@localhost:~# #rm -rf / This prevents accidental execution of rm on the wrong file/directory. Once verified, remove # from the beginning. This trick works, because in Bash a word beginning with # causes that word and all … Read more
Try to delete it with root user or use sudo, if you are in trouble Use rm -rf dir with root account and it will be deleted, since you should be facing a permissions issue.