Hi,
> Is there a maximum number of folders you can have in a partition? Is
> this the problem?
I don't know about ext4 specifically but most file systems have a
preset maximum number of files/directories that you can create.
Each file/directory requires one i-node.
The numbers are normally set high enough that you're likely to run
out of space first.
You can find the values set for your file systems with the command
df -i
$ df -i
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
rootfs 3203072 672377 2530695 21% /
/dev/md126 3203072 672377 2530695 21% /
devtmpfs 221667 1516 220151 1% /dev
tmpfs 221759 1044 220715 1% /run
shm 221759 1 221758 1% /dev/shm
/dev/md125 27189248 2046982 25142266 8% /home
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