On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 13:38 -0800, Rick Stevens wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 16:43 +0000, GERALD HOOPER wrote: > >> > >> Hi Red Hat Group > >> > >> I recently installed Fedora V7 from LXFDVD95 dated August 2007 on a > >> separate hard 20gb hard drive. I then received 250 plus critical > >> updates to my system which failed to install because the /var > >> directory ran out of space. > > > > No it didn't. Directories don't have space limits. Partitions on the > > other hand, do. > > Not entirely true. There is a file count limit in ext2/3 directories. > Can't recall what it is offhand, but something like 32767 files (2^15 > -1). I've hit it before. You mean a limit on the number of directory entries (not files). If it comes to that, there's also a maximum number of inodes per filesystem (and even a maximum total size per filesystem), but I doubt that the OP was talking about any of these. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
