From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 12 19:54:13 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from allegro.lemis.com (allegro.lemis.com [192.109.197.134]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C8A451564C for ; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 19:54:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by allegro.lemis.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA13532; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 12:21:44 +0930 (CST) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id MAA74337; Tue, 13 Apr 1999 12:21:42 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19990413122142.C74226@lemis.com> Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 12:21:42 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: randyk@ccsales.com, Doug White Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Too many links References: <3.0.5.32.19990412065446.05330240@ccsales.com> <19990412122915.15006@ccsales.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i In-Reply-To: <19990412122915.15006@ccsales.com>; from randyk on Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 12:29:15PM -0700 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Monday, 12 April 1999 at 12:29:15 -0700, randyk wrote: > On Mon, Apr 12, 1999 at 11:20:52AM -0700, Doug White wrote: >> On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Randy A. Katz wrote: >> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I've got a directory which has a ton of directories under it. Now, when I >>> try to create another directory it says: Too may links. >>> >>> Does anyone know what must be done? >> >> What does 'df -i' report? >> >> Can you do 'ls -l' of the parent directory of the directory you're trying >> to create? > > df -i > 48% iused on that partition. > > ls -l works, takes a while but works. What you really want is ls -ld of the directory. For example, $ ls -ld /var/spool drwxr-xr-x 17 root wheel 512 Aug 12 1998 /var/spool The second field (17 here) is the link count. I'd expect to see 32767 in your case. If it's less, we can go back into head-scratching mode. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message