From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 12 20: 7:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from ccsales.com (ccsales.com [216.0.22.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03B6515622 for ; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 20:07:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from randyk@ccsales.com) Received: from rknt2 (joe.hiper.net [206.111.55.146]) by ccsales.com (8.9.1/8.9.0) with SMTP id UAA01515; Mon, 12 Apr 1999 20:05:19 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990413080448.0496b7b0@ccsales.com> X-Sender: randyk@ccsales.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0.5 (32) Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 08:04:48 -0700 To: Greg Lehey , Doug White From: "Randy A. Katz" Subject: Re: Too many links Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <19990413122142.C74226@lemis.com> References: <19990412122915.15006@ccsales.com> <3.0.5.32.19990412065446.05330240@ccsales.com> <19990412122915.15006@ccsales.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Yep, the link count is at max. At 12:21 PM 4/13/99 +0930, Greg Lehey wrote: >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