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Top Forums UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users limit to number of files in a given directory Post 47253 by oombera on Thursday 5th of February 2004 03:14:14 PM
Old 02-05-2004
Interestingly enough, I would've thought the only limit was disk space, but then I found one of Perderabo's posts from last summer. I forgot that directories are themselves files and that all files might have a max size.

https://www.unix.com/unix-for-dummies-questions-and-answers/10548-linux-solaris-has-any-limit-folder-size.html?s=

But after reading it, it pretty much looks like the same as what Optimus_P said ... you'll probably run out of usable disk space before you run into any of these other limits on a directory.

Of course, if you keep putting so many files in one directory, you're gonna run into other problems trying to manipulate them (even simple things like just listing all the files).
 

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