https://github.com/zimolzak/emptying-trash

Estimate the time to completion on a long "empty the trash" operation.
https://github.com/zimolzak/emptying-trash

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Estimate the time to completion on a long "empty the trash" operation.

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/zimolzak/emptying-trash
• Owner: zimolzak
• License: mit
• Created: 2020-11-05T22:42:45.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2020-11-06T12:54:21.000Z (over 5 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-01-27T14:41:07.259Z (over 2 years ago)
• Topics: ggplot2, loess, macos, sysadmin, trash
• Language: R
• Homepage:
• Size: 3.91 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 3
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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Emptying the trash

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Estimate the time to completion on a long "empty the trash" operation.

I Have a macOS Time Machine backup disk that refused to work on a big

backup because it's too full (even though it's set to delete old

backups as necessary). So I deleted a bunch of old backup sets from

`Backups.backupdb`, which went fast, as expected. Then I emptied the

trash, which is going slowly, as expected. *But how slowly?*

I'm logging (using `watch df -m`) how much free space is on my

external HDD, as a function of time of day. I want to know when it

will get to 250 GB of free space.

Also it's fun to watch the used versus free inodes and to take the

log-base-2 of the total inode capacity, but that is kind of out of

scope.