inode count

hybernate20 · 03-17-2009, 05:38 PM

Hello,

I was wondering if anybody knows of a way to find out what the inode usage is for a particular folder. I know that you can check it with a df -i for an entire FS, but that doesn't really help me. Any ideas?

anomie · 03-17-2009, 05:46 PM

A goofy hack off the top of my head:

Code:

%find some_folder -type f -exec ls -i {} \; > my-output
%awk '{print $1}' my-output | sort | uniq | wc -l

The sort/uniq combo is there to squeeze out duplicated instances of hard links. There may be a more elegant solution than this.