Hello all

Can someone tell me I am running a script and the outputs directory is too small to contain the newly created file as a result of this script. How can I increase the directory size?

Thanks

as far as i know directories have no size, only the partition where the directory is. there are several ways ofcourse to limit the space a user could use (quotas). post your OS and your UID when you are not the root go to your administator and ask him for more space...

gP

Directories are files that are treated specially by the os. Directories grow automatically as entries are added to them. Once they reach the maximum file size they can grow no further.

Perderabo,

Out of curiosity, is the max file size mentioned anywhere or can it be seen via some system calls ?

vino

I think that the max supported filesize is dependent on your filesystem.

Agreed.

But that figure can be accessible somewhere by some system calls.

Which one ?

Vino

try these:

man ulimit - definitely available on SunOS and HP-UX
man getrlimit - this is the syscall that ulimit uses in Sun

these give the limit on various system resources available to the current shell.

man pathconf (required by posix)

maximum file size could be upto 2 GB
datablocks containing file data are triple-indexed indirectly (a maximum of triple level indirection)

Thank you all i figured that i was just recreating stuff in the same filesystem
You are all awesome will speak soon