From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 27 22:19:44 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A414337B401 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 22:19:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.acd.net (smtp.acd.net [207.179.102.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E542043FA3 for ; Thu, 27 Feb 2003 22:19:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from taxman@ACD.NET) Received: from 207.179.65.219 ([207.179.65.219]) by smtp.acd.net with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.0.2195.5329); Fri, 28 Feb 2003 01:19:44 -0500 From: taxman To: Erik Trulsson , How Can ThisBe Subject: Re: File system limits Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 01:04:55 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20030228003859.GA1846@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> In-Reply-To: <20030228003859.GA1846@falcon.midgard.homeip.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200302280104.55442.taxman@acd.net> X-OriginalArrivalTime: 28 Feb 2003 06:19:45.0083 (UTC) FILETIME=[631880B0:01C2DEF1] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message