Re: finding directories with many files in a file system

[Philip Rowlands]

On 18/07/2013 10:25, 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?
>
> Well, I could use something like this:
>
>    $ find .  -xdev -type d \
>      | while read f ; do \
>          printf "%d %s: " "$(find "$f" -xdev | wc -l)" "$f" ; \
>        done \
>        | sort -k1,1n
>
> But this a) is lame and b) doesn't count hardlinks well.

This gives the non-cumulative total per directory:
$ find . -xdev -printf '%h\n' | sort | uniq -c | sort -n

but doesn't handle hard links. You could use -printf '%h %i\n' and 
post-process the duplicate inodes (no per-file stat since find v4.5.4).

Cheers,
Phil