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Date:      Fri, 28 Feb 2003 01:04:55 -0500
From:      taxman <taxman@acd.net>
To:        Erik Trulsson <ertr1013@student.uu.se>, How Can ThisBe <howcanthisbe300@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: File system limits
Message-ID:  <200302280104.55442.taxman@acd.net>
In-Reply-To: <20030228003859.GA1846@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>
References:  <F344TzmKYTgetZ3G9yT0003b6e0@hotmail.com> <20030228003859.GA1846@falcon.midgard.homeip.net>

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On Thursday 27 February 2003 07:39 pm, Erik Trulsson wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:11:14AM +0000, How Can ThisBe wrote:
> > I'm working on a little experimental script and I'm wondering if there
> > is any kind of limit as to how many files or subdirectories a directory
> > can have.

Well of course there is the simple limit of how many inodes your filessytem 
has.  You can only change that when you create the filesystem with newfs.
the newfs and fs man pages seem like the best explanation I can find atm for 
you to explain that.

Tim

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