I tried to remove a bucket from an S3 compatible object store. The trouble is that it wasn’t empty, there were lots of objects inside. I tried minio’s client:

mc rm --recursive --dangerous --force exo/somebucket

But it just seemed to stall after removing ~100 objects. The solution is to run it using timeout in a loop, eg.

while true; do timeout 10 mc rm --recursive --dangerous --force exo/somebucket; done