A-52 Dell PowerVault 720N, 740N, and 760N System Administrator and Command Reference Guide
NAME
maxfiles - increase the number of files the volume can hold
SYNOPSIS
maxfiles [
vol
_
name
[
max
] ]
DESCRIPTION
maxfiles increases the number of files that a volume can hold to
max
. Once
increased, the value of
max
can never be lowered, so the new value must be
larger than the current value. If no argument is specified, maxfiles displays the
current value of
max
for all volumes in the system. If just the
vol
_
name
argument
is given, the current value of
max
for the specified volume is displayed.
Because each allowable file consumes disk space, and because the value of
max
can never be reduced, increasing
max
consumes disk space permanently. If
maxfiles identifies a new size as unreasonably large, it will query the user to ver-
ify that the new value is correct.
The filers df command (see df) can be used to determine how many files have
currently been created in the file system.
SEE ALSO
df
maxfiles
