Dolphin File Folders Maximum Limit?

[jlittle]

... (is that an urge to futz... tempting)...

BTW, I wasn't sure if my use of "futz" was good, so I looked it up on Wiktionary. I found the etymology hilarious. An excerpt:

from German herumfurzen (“to fart around”) (herum- + furzen), perhaps via Yiddish arumfartzen

So I futzed, avoiding the lawn overdue for a mow. On an old ext4 partition I "made" directories 11,100 deep, and bash coped quite well, but a bit slow to create them all. Alas, there's a limit on path length compiled in to my install (and presumably the same for all 64 bit *ubuntus) of 4096 bytes, so pwd and rm just said "path too long".

Regards, John Little

[GreyGeek]

So, did the “path too long” occur at the 11,101th directory?


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[jlittle]

So, did the “path too long” occur at the 11,101th directory?

No, when running pwd. The $PWD variable of bash was fine, all forty-odd kB of it; the directory name had 3 characters.

I got to that number by first running the loop 10 times, then 100, 1000, and 10000. That last was slow enough.

Just repeated the exercise, on a btrfs, using a 10 character file name, and bash stopped at a depth of about 11,916 with the error "Arg list too long.". $PWD reached a length of nearly 131072, 2**17, which suggests that it has something to do with the error.

Oops, I can't run anything now, not even rmdir. Any command other than bash builtins give the error "Argument list too long"...

[edit]ok, I was able to cd up a few times, and commands started working, now I can run rm -r in a loop to clean up the mess.