How to limit max. number of folder can be created inside a folder

Winanjaya · 07-29-2013, 09:47 PM

Hello All,

I am running Centos 6.4 (64bits), How to limit max. number of folder can be created inside a folder?

Please help

Thanks & Regards
Winanjaya

SAbhi · 07-29-2013, 11:06 PM

What is the need of limiting the subdirs inside a dir ? Most people have need to limit the no. of files created as some of their applications are producing log/output files frequently. Did you have a similar issue of dir creation ?
I am asking this because altering anything inside the default standardised setup of an OS would results in performance issues.

Winanjaya · 07-29-2013, 11:26 PM

No, I don't have performance issue of dir creation.. what I want to do is just to organize the folders ..
is it possible..?

SAbhi · 07-30-2013, 12:44 AM

Hmm I don't know if that can be done. But even if it is, I would still suggest not alter that when you don't have any issues. The max dir's depends upon filesystem and not on OS. ext2/3 can have 32k as the upper limit while ext4 has around 64k. So I am a bit in question if that can be customised.

eklavya · 08-01-2013, 05:47 AM

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...folder-877599/
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-linux-605487/
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...ectory-183643/