compress and delete dataset

[chulett]

Make sure you understand that there is no reason to delete just the descriptor files, all that will do is orphan the actual datasets they are associated with.

As noted, for "bulk" deletes you can script a do loop to run the orchadmin rm command for a list of .ds files with whatever age criteria you'd like. That will cleanly delete everything associated with each dataset, the desciptor file and the dataset itself.

[ray.wurlod]

The files on the resource disk are not descriptor files. They are "segment" (data) files.

Descriptor files can live anywhere, and have ".ds" as their file name suffix.

A Data Set consists of its descriptor files and all of the segment files to which that descriptor file refers.

That's why orchadmin rm is the only safe way to delete a Data Set.