Too Many Files In Debian Linux Folder?
- by Dave Potts
I've been using an external USB drive on a Debian server for backup. The drive is formatted as NTFS and mounted with ntsfmount. This was working fine, but I was filling up a directory with lots of files. Eventually the backup failed. When I then tried to look at the directory using ls it reported:
ls: reading directory .: Numerical result out of range
Looking in syslog, I also saw this:
Sep 23 07:35:31 tosh ntfsmount[28040]: Failed to read index block: Numerical result out of range.
Is this simply that I've reached the upper limit of number of files in a directory? If so, is there any way to extend the number of allowed files?