Space Allocation Problems

[Rick Stevens]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 16:43 +0000, GERALD HOOPER wrote:
>>  
>> Hi Red Hat Group
>>  
>> I recently installed Fedora V7 from LXFDVD95 dated August 2007 on a
>> separate hard 20gb hard drive. I then received 250 plus critical
>> updates to my system which failed to install because the /var
>> directory ran out of space.
> 
> No it didn't. Directories don't have space limits. Partitions on the
> other hand, do.

Not entirely true.  There is a file count limit in ext2/3 directories.
Can't recall what it is offhand, but something like 32767 files (2^15
-1).  I've hit it before.
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