I think it has something to do with the amount of files. I found info that said that a vfat root directory can have up to 512 files (including folders). I didn't have this many. Even so, I deleted two folders with however many files I thought maybe it was a maximum amount of folders, so I created three more and there was no problem.
I now have 4179 items totalling 1.4GB find /mnt/windows -type f -print | wc -l reports 3923 files find /mnt/windows -print | wc -l reports 4180 files I think the -print is redundant on linux (at least on my box using the bash) Thanks for the assistance Chris On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 23:05:47 +1100 "Steve Kowalik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 8:23 pm, Saturday, February 16 2002, Christopher Booth mumbled: > > I am wondering if there is a maximum amount of files that the file > system driver can read on fat16 drives ? > > That I'm not sure about. > > > I'm not sure how to do file count on the drive to see how many files I > have. > > How do you do this from the command-line ? > > Nautilus reports 4331 items, totalling 1.4 GB > > the default directory has 166 files 103.8MB > > > > Any ideas ? > > > No ideas about the problem, but 'find <path> -type f -print | wc -l' > will > tell you how many files are in the directory. > (Yes, I know you don't need -print, but I'm allowed to be pedantic) > > -- > Steve > <shorty> Argh, konqueror is eating again memory like a hog > <shorty> 9127 shorty 18 0 19448 16M 12184 R 88.0 13.2 6:18 > kdeinit > <liiwi> it's konquerroring your machine. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
