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Increasing file handles in UNIX... ?
Name: stevem Date: November 26, 1999 at 07:17:44 Pacific
Comment:
Hi there!
I need to increase the available file handles for root to 1000, can someone pls tell me how to do this ? (sorry, no sysadmin here)
Name: Perry Date: November 30, 1999 at 12:59:36 Pacific
Reply:
Steve...
Tough question, can you give more details....what are you trying to do? Do you mean you need more files available for the root partition? ...as in more inodes? If this is the case, inodes are created at file system creation, and are not changeable without reloading.
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