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Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 16:01:46 -0500 (EST)
From: Bradley Dunn <bradley@dunn.org>
To: David Stickney <david@wvb.gomel.by>
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Subject: Re: Big Directories..
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On Fri, 21 Feb 1997, David Stickney wrote:

> I some questions, that nobody can seem to answer
> 
> while : ; do
>      mkdir x
>      cd x
> done
> 
> 1. How can you prevent users from running this in their home directory, 
> without cutting off their shell account

Install quotas. Then if they want to use their quota on empty directories,
let them.

> 2. How can you get rid of the directory once it has 300 or so 
> subdirectories. The shell keeps saying there is no such directory, and 
> nothing seems to delete it. I tried moving it to a floppy, but it worked 
> for 45 minutes and I didn't want to burn out the drive.

Maybe do a 'ls -id' on the top directory and then use clri(8) to clear the
inode. Then run fsck(8) on the filesystem. It should work, although I have
never tried it in this situation.


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