Max. Folder

[beer]

Hello,

I am having a problem with our server Redhat 7.2. We currently have 30211 folders in the home directory, and for some reason, the server won't create user folder after we that. I wonder if there are any folder restrictions on Linux's folder structure. As we are upgrading our system to 8.0, I am afraid that it may also be a problem in 8.0

If anyone has any idea, please help. Thank you very much.

Beer

 

[danielhozac]

Do you have any free space left on the device? //Daniel

 

[beer]

We partitioned the hard drive to three different spots. The one that stores all the user folders are close to full, but not. There should be enough space to create another folder in there.

 

[sleipnir214]

What filesystem are you running? Want the best answers? Ask the best questions:

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

TANSTAAFL!

 

[beer]

We are using both ext 2 and ext 3 for our two servers. Thank you.

 

[Morsing]

What does debugfs say on inodes??

Cheers Henrik Morsing
IBM Certified AIX 4.3 Systems Administration

 

[beer]

Hello,

I have figured that the max sub-directories of a single directoy can have are 32000. We have come up with the solution where we can create the sub-directories of each english letter, i.e. a, b, c....etc. Currently, we have 32000 sub directories and moving them into each a, b, c directories is not the problem at all. However, we need to find out how to change the /etc/passwd to tell it the users' home directories have changed from /home/auser to /home/a/auser.

I have been searching on the web to see if there is any script that can help the whole day, but I have no such a luck so far. Therefore, if anyone that can give me any suggestion, it will be very very great.

Thank you very much,
Beer

 

[sleipnir214]

beer:

Take a look at usermod.

Or write a perl script that modifies /etc/passwd directly. Want the best answers? Ask the best questions:

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

TANSTAAFL!

 

[HeyZuess]

Like Morsing suggested above, I'd look at the number of inodes on the filesystem. That's the only thing I've ever heard of limiting the number of files or directories.