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(Get the code!)
actually I'm sorry, I take that back. I was trying to rm -rf over 1.3TB of data, composed of over 17,000 sub directories each a dozen or so files located inside.
I too had complete system lock-up when I would try deleting them (moving and copying was fine).
I tried to move the directories in blocks of about 100 or so to another directory, then tried deleting those. I had the same lockup issues.
The method that taigolp proposed helped a lot, but didn't completely solve my problem. While I could delete about a 100 or so directories now, I still can't delete the entire 17k directory tree without a full lock-up.
for the record, I'm running jaunty 32-bit, 2.6.28-15-generic. ext4 native on a LVM volume spanned across two 1.5TB sata drives on a silicon image SATA pci card.