Dear linuxquestion.org users,

I'm looking for an application that extracts useful statistics from my filesystem or a given directory.

Ideally, it should report things like this for the whole FS/Dir :

- Average file size
- Average directory size
- Average lenght of file names
- Average lenght of directory names
- Average number of files per directory
- Average depth of the files

And so on ...

Does anybody know any app/script that can do that ?

Thanks,
Teresa

I think some of those things can be found using df and du. Maybe the wc command. Maybe there's some predefined bash variables that will know the filename length.

Look at this thread. Then experiment with your own script...

Teresa,

Like pljvaldez suggested you can use df and du but since you want to "save" the records you can use the following command:
df > df_data.txt and/or du > du_data.txt
You then get a text file that contains info like this:

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 2939744 1178744 1761000 41% /
none 256884 0 256884 0% /dev/shm
/dev/hdb1 19550532 3034784 16515748 16% /mnt/data1
/dev/hda3 4891620 1267120 3624500 26% /opt
/dev/hda5 4891556 1162272 3729284 24% /usr
/dev/hda6 16610624 582472 16028152 4% /home
/dev/hda7 9277216 4340660 4936556 47% /hip
//spitfire/public 6040192 4182400 1857792 70% /home/ralvez/public

Hope this helps.

Rick