On Thursday 01 February 2007 14:55, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 01/02/07, Tzahi Fadida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 30 January 2007 16:19, Yehoshua (Shay) O'Hayon Suchar wrote: > > > Tzahi Fadida said: > > > > I tried 7z but after about 12% of archiving it gives a weird error: > > > > "Error: > > > > > > > > > > > > System error: > > > > Too many open files " > > > > (and this file was never opened :). > > > > > > > > What can i do? > > > > > > Could be that the error has something to do with the limit of file > > > descriptors in the system? > > > > Sorry for not responding earlier. My system crashed and i had to restore > > from backups. > > I did not really understand this. Are you saying there is a limit on the > > number of files i can tar gz? > > I also make backups of my emails and there can be as much as a million > > files, pherhaps more because of the mbox style(i think) of holding mails. > > Somebody please correct me if I'm wrong, but so far as I know mbox > saves all the emails of a particular folder in one big file. So if you > have 200 emails in 5 folders, then you will have 5 mbox files. > > Kmail has another two or three files per mbox folder, so you really > will have 5*n folders, but you get the idea. It's not 200*n.
Sorry, of course maildir. > > Dotan Cohen > > http://what-is-what.com/what_is/firefox.html > http://technology-sleuth.com/question/what_is_a_firewall.html -- Regards, Tzahi. -- Tzahi Fadida Blog: http://tzahi.blogsite.org | Home Site: http://tzahi.webhop.info WARNING TO SPAMMERS: see at http://members.lycos.co.uk/my2nis/spamwarning.html ================================================================To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
