Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: ext2 max directories? | Date | 19 Nov 1999 01:13:02 GMT |
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Followup to: <81219j$ohc$1@subspace.cistron-internet.nl> By author: miquels@cistron.nl (Miquel van Smoorenburg) In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > In article <cistron.38348670.3DC0952A@audiohighway.com>, > Shane Clements <shane@audiohighway.com> wrote: > > I have run out of directories on a server. there are 31998 > >directories. Is there another filesystem I could use? Thanks! > > You've probably simply run out of inodes. Do a "df -i". If so, > read the manpage for mke2fs, pay attention to the "-i" option, and > create a filesystem with a smaller bytes-per-inode ratio. >
No, actually, it's probably the ext2fs link limit (the number of subdirectories of a single directory.) If you make your directory structure more hierarchial, that'd solve that problem.
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