Re: finding directories with many files in a file system

[Bernhard Voelker]

On 07/18/2013 05:55 PM, Joseph D. Wagner wrote:
> On 07/18/2013 2:25 am, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
> 
>> I have e.g. a file system where most of the inodes space is used,
>> let's say 450k of 500k. What command(s) would I use to find out
>> which sub-directories are eating most of the inodes?

> It is sometimes hard to find a generic solution to a filesystem 
> specific problem.

I don't think it's *that* file system specific because many UNIX
file systems have a fixed limit for the maximum number of inodes.
It could be e.g. ext[2-4].

In the meantime, I wrote a little script which determines the
mount point of the given file/directory argument (or "." if missing),
and for every sub-directory (which is on the same device), it counts
the number of files in the tree below.  It's far from being perfect,
and as it uses find(1) for each sub-directory it is quite suboptimal
regarding performance, of course.

Have a nice day,
Berny

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