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01.08.2006 at 11:56AM PST, ID: 21688549
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Sub directory limit?

Asked by googster in Linux

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We've run into disk space issue that apparently is caused by the # of sub directories in one directory on a Fedora v2 (2.6.14-051115a).

We want a total of 1800 sub-directory in main directory Health/.  And each sub-directory would have about 46528 sub-directories.  Totalling to 83750400 sub-directories in all.
Is this possible on ext3 system without any issues? inode? disk usage?  If all sub-directories are empty...is it enough to eat up 100GB of hard disk space?

We tested the above by creating all the sub-dirs and immediately it ate up about 80GB of space?!  Is it because there is a limit of sub-dirs on a Linux OS?

Can anyone help please?
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