What the hell are these dirs?

[Suvayu Ali]

On Friday 24 July 2009 08:03 PM, Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> Can someone tell me what these dirs are for and why they're so hard to
> delete:
>
> [ranbir at ranbir plugin]$ pwd
> /home/ranbir/.cache/gnome-mplayer/plugin
>
> [ranbir at ranbir plugin]$ ls -l
> total 523808
> drwxr-xr-x 2 ranbir ranbir  99831808 2009-07-24 22:43 gnome-mplayeraabsvy
> drwxr-xr-x 2 ranbir ranbir 107634688 2009-07-10 10:28 gnome-mplayercwgvib
> drwxr-xr-x 2 ranbir ranbir  29638656 2009-07-10 10:28 gnome-mplayerjjkyiv
> drwxr-xr-x 2 ranbir ranbir 101244928 2009-07-10 10:28 gnome-mplayerkaotaa
> drwxr-xr-x 2 ranbir ranbir  99209216 2009-07-10 10:28 gnome-mplayerrkujaa
> drwxr-xr-x 2 ranbir ranbir  98258944 2009-07-10 10:28 gnome-mplayerxnyieu
>
>
> I don't know how they were created.  So I decided to delete them, but
> they don't actually get deleted.  If I try an "ls", my HD grinds away
> without printing any output to the screen.
>
> I'm assuming the dirs are full of thousands of files.  So, how do I get
> rid of them?
>

Those are most probably cached files which never got deleted after you 
closed your browser. rm -f should take care of it.

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Suvayu

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