Re: [Dorset] Partition folder capacity

2013-05-10 Thread Justin Stringfellow
Tuning the maxusers as a means of increasing the available inodes was taught by Sun in their 2.x Network Admin course and was included in the NFS Server Performance and Tuning guide. So as a recommended method, I regard it as having been safe, useful and effective. Tuning maxusers is a very

Re: [Dorset] Partition folder capacity

2013-05-10 Thread p.lane
Hi Justin. Yes, definitely Solaris 2.x I was working mainly with 2.4-2.6 (previously with SunOS also), but it is in the 2.x Network admin course material, I just checked it. I took that course in 2000. I'm sure I've only used that feature once tho as I said , after upping the capacity of an

Re: [Dorset] Partition folder capacity

2013-05-09 Thread p.lane
On 07/05/2013 19:03, Justin Stringfellow wrote: Tuning maxusers on Solaris is a bad idea, not sure about Linux. It's an ancient tunable whose meaning has long since ceased to control the max number of interactive users and it serves more as a master control knob for sizing the whole system.

Re: [Dorset] Partition folder capacity

2013-05-08 Thread Justin Stringfellow
Tuning maxusers on Solaris is a bad idea, not sure about Linux. It's an ancient tunable whose meaning has long since ceased to control the max number of interactive users and it serves more as a master control knob for sizing the whole system. The impact of fiddling with it is potentially

Re: [Dorset] Partition folder capacity

2013-05-08 Thread Ralph Corderoy
Hi Clive, I have been trying to copy over 1 folder with all sub-folders and files; all appears to go well but after it is finished the folder shows no sub-folders or files! Empty. tried this 4 times in various ways. How is Nautilus accessing this remote ext4 filesystem? IOW, what do you

[Dorset] Partition folder capacity

2013-05-07 Thread Clive A Wills
Hi All See you tonight at the Broadway all being well. Since arriving back from Switzerland I've been trying to copy all the photo's onto my hard drive which is connected to the router, acts as a network store and backup. Up till now all has gone well but I've not been able to copy the

Re: [Dorset] Partition folder capacity

2013-05-07 Thread Bob Dunlop
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

Re: [Dorset] Partition folder capacity

2013-05-07 Thread C A Wills
Hi Bob Thanks for the info but using df -i only lists info of the laptop I'm using although the remote partition is 'mounted' on the desktop and I can 'see' the files on it in Nautilus. The only partitions listed are sda2 (root) sda6 (home). *C A Wills* /Powered by Linux Open Source

Re: [Dorset] Partition folder capacity

2013-05-07 Thread p.lane
On 07/05/2013 15:42, C A Wills wrote: Hi Bob Thanks for the info but using df -i only lists info of the laptop I'm using although the remote partition is 'mounted' on the desktop and I can 'see' the files on it in Nautilus. The only partitions listed are sda2 (root) sda6 (home). *C A