[ubuntu-in] Strange problem with too many jpg files in one folder

Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक] abhishek.amberkar at gmail.com
Wed Aug 25 16:56:16 BST 2010


On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 9:07 PM, Ritesh Sinha
<ritesh.kumar.sinha at gmail.com> wrote:
> I was testing this out, the problem is with find complaining about the
> argument list (too large).
>
> For testing I did this inside a folder
> # for i in $seq(50000); do touch ${i}.jpg; done
> then tried ls, mv etc. Worked like a charm, I have a hunch that there is
> a limitation in ext3 (I'm using ext4).

Even I tried on ext3. I could create 315142 files using touch. Not
more than that.
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With Regards
Abhishek Amberkar



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