Sysadmin What is the quickest way to delete a LARGE folder?

It's large in terms of size, like 700GB+, and also has lots of content, I think more than 500K files.

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This folder is just a Nginx fascgi_cache folder, but the cache is stored for 60 days.

The server is using a spinning HD, and doing rm -rf takes hours but hasn't even finished yet, causing the whole site to lag.

 

Thanks, I was thinking about rsync but haven't tried it yet.
I will try again later on non peak hours.

 

Yes I am .
But sometimes I need some major changes on the backend that I also need to purge all the cache (server side and CF) and it's pain for the main server for several hours until the cache build up.

 

Thanks, but not CPU intensive as I observed.

Old cache folder:

New cache folder just for testing