Hi everyone,

I have a directory on an NTFS file system (XP SP2) which contains an absurd number of files (about 90,000). We would like to subdivide these files into directories based on filename. Unfortunately, Windows doesn't seem to be able to handle this many files in a directory. The directory is pretty much un-browseable.

I tried doing this via cgywin, but the mv command segfaults.

I can't seem to figure out how to mount this filesystem rw in knoppix, so apparently rw NTFS isn't there yet. Is this true?

Anyone have any sneaky ideas on how to do this?

Thanks in advance,

Jim

[rant]I am once again dumbfounded that people use this operating system for anything other than playing games. Some large companies actually use it for critical systems. I would fire anyone who made that decision.[/rant]