On 2 Jan 2002 at 20:09, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> +++ Shridhar Daithankar [linux-india] <02/01/02 16:37 +0530>:
> > > 1. Is there any limit on the number of files that can be created under 
> > >    a directory?
> > It's limited by number of inodes allocated to that particular partition. It's 
> > usually one inode per 4096 bytes of partition space. You can change this
> > figure while formatting the partition.
> Or you can echo a higher value into /proc/sys/[whatever] ... I think the
> thing is file-max 

I think that's for maximum number of files that can be kept open at a time. 
This figure does not depend upon partitions but is for entire /.

Correct me if I am wrong..

 Shridhar

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