Hi, On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Tvrtko Ursulin <tvrtko.ursulin@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I was creating such a (crazy?) tree and hit -ENOSPC at ~31 million directories > created in total with df showing only 40% use: > Inode count: 29868032 > Free inodes: 29848131 Since, each directory will use a inode entry, there is some mismatch with ~31 million directories and 19901 inodes in use. The inode usage count should be much larger. You have max 29 million inodes available - so max can be 29 million directories. Try $blk Regards. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html