NPM — npm start Error: ENOSPC: System limit for number of file watchers reached

Fiko Borizqy
1 min readOct 26, 2019

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If you are facing this error once you are trying to execute npm start, it’s because of your `max_user_watches` was reached the maximum number. Simply you can increase the `max_user_watches` by running this command :

$ echo fs.inotify.max_user_watches=288 | sudo tee -a /etc/sysctl.conf && sudo sysctl -p

And then you can run npm start again, and voila :

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Fiko Borizqy
Fiko Borizqy

Written by Fiko Borizqy

I wrote these tutorials for myself in future when I forget for the next steps.

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