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Old 06-08-2005
Increasing a directory size
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
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Old 06-08-2005
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
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Old 06-08-2005
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.
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Old 06-08-2005
Perderabo,

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

vino
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Old 06-08-2005
I think that the max supported filesize is dependent on your filesystem.
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Old 06-08-2005
Quote:
Originally Posted by blowtorch
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
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Old 06-08-2005
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.
 
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