>I have managed to get 160Mb on it, but with fewer files. I know when
you run
>things like fsck the output says something like nnnn/zzzzzz files. I
have
>always assumed that zzzzzz is the maximum number of files possible on
the disk.
>Is there a finite limit of files that Linux (or indeed any OS) is able
to put
>on a Zip drive ?
Yes, there is a maximum number of files. I don't really know much about
how the FAT format works, but if you were to make a new filesystem on
the disk you can specify the number of inodes the file system should
have. You can't have more files than this even if you have lots of room
left over.
Try "df --inodes" and "df --si" and tell us what the results from those
show.
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