[OpenAFS] Emacs, Gnus or AFS problem (file to large)

Turbo Fredriksson turbo@bayour.com
04 Feb 2003 11:40:20 +0100


Quoting Love <lha@stacken.kth.se>:

> Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@bayour.com> writes:
> 
> > One of my users - coincidently (?) the same one that have problem
> > with the volume every now and then (see previous posts from me) -
> > now have a problem with GNUS (mail reader in Emacs).
> >
> > When fetching mails and splitting them up into 'mailboxes', it (gnus)
> > dies with the error
> >
> > Opening output file: file to large, /afs/bayour.com/user/sundqvist/malin/.Mail/debian/user/english/64852
> 
> It can't be so that that directory contains too many files ?

Very likely it seems... 

[papadoc.pts/2]$ cd /afs/bayour.com/user/sundqvist/malin/.Mail/debian/user/english/
[papadoc.pts/2]$ find -type f | wc -l
  64433

Now, should I fix it, or rename (remove) the directory... Is it POSSIBLE
to fix it?