Hello,

I just reached 32000 accounts in my plesk instalation.

The filesystem on my server is ext3, so i can't have more than 32000 accounts because the fileystem doesn't allow it.

Solution 1: Increase the max subdirectories that ext3 allows
Solution 2: change the home directory of the referred domain (i have others) to something like domain/a/all the account that start by a.

Can anyone help me to implemente any of these solutions?

Thanks

When you say 32000 accounts what type of "accounts" domains or user accounts?

Hello!

i mean the useraccounts. i have around 40 domains and one of them just reached the 32000 user accounts, and therefore 32000 subdirectories of the folder of the domain.

I would need to check Plesk's support but Reiserfs does not have the 32K directory limit like ext3/ext2.

It would be a major backup/restore project but using Reiserfs would overcome this limit. It does better on lots of small files per directory than ext3 as well.

I assume very specifically you mean email accounts such that /var/qmail/mailnames will not allow more users? Or are these web users.

One simple solution could be adding a dedicated disk drive with a Reiserfs filesystem and then copying the data to this drive. Once the copy was complete you could mount this drive directly at /var/qmail/mailname/domain

or /var/www/vhosts/domain. I don't think plesk would care too much about that.

The accounts tha i am talking amount are email accounts.

So, according to you guys there is nothing i can do to fix it using just what i have?

I say this because my server is rented and i don't have a lot of flexibility to add new drives and so...

I saw something in the web to increase a flag in ext3_fs.h, which i did! but it didn't work.

Is there anyway to change the way plesk / qmail save the mailboxes?

thanks

have you actually hit this limit and received an error, or are you just assuming that you will have this problem? I dont think I have ever run into this on a ext2/3 file system. Especially with the size of some email queue's i've run into.

I believe the only limitation is the amount of available inodes.

If you have not hit this limit yet, cd into /var/qmail/mailnames/domain and mkdir a few times, and see if you end up with an error. I would suggest this method rather than trying to add it via the panel, and having it get half added, or some other head ache.

Hello!

I have reached this limit. Trying to add a new folder gives me the error "no more links".

Thanks