[Klug-general] out of inodes

[James Morris]

Oh well, it's a start :/

I tested it on /var and it's next to useless for helping you weed out the
dir with the most files in. needs a sort command thrown in there
somewhere, or else only show the most full dirs or something.

james.




On Thu, April 29, 2010 15:10, James Morris wrote:
> Ok, here's a BASH script to count files:
>
> ---------------8<-----------------
> #!/bin/bash
> DIR=$1
>
> if [ "x" == "x$1" ]
> then
> DIR=$PWD
> fi
>
> TOTAL=0
>
> while IFSO= read -r -d $'\0' dir; do
> COUNT=0
> while IFS= read -r -d $'\0' file; do
>     let "COUNT += 1"
> done < <(find $dir -maxdepth 1 -type f -print0)
> echo "${dir} ${COUNT} files"
> let "TOTAL += COUNT"
> done < <(find $DIR -type d -print0)
> echo "total files ${TOTAL}"
> ---------------8<-----------------
>
> I've based it upon some code here:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1956144/bash-script-to-rename-all-files-in-a-directory/1956165#1956165
>
> I've done a simple test and the output is like so:
>
> gensys at gentoomus ~/Projects $ ./count boxyseq
> boxyseq 45 files
> boxyseq/gridtest 30 files
> boxyseq/gridtest/eventlist 2 files
> boxyseq/listtest 14 files
> total files 91
>
> You can specify a directory to it, or it'll use the current working
> directory. It trusts what you tell it.
>
>
> James.
>
> On Thu, April 29, 2010 00:35, Stuart Brand wrote:
>> in Nautilus you can browse the folders and instead of size, for folders
>> it displays item count.
>>
>> all I can think of without writing a bash script?
>>
>>
>> On Wed, 2010-04-28 at 10:47 +0100, Dan Attwood wrote:
>>> Hi all
>>>
>>>
>>> I've managed to run out of inodes on my /var partition. df shows the
>>> partiton as 42% full 'df -i' shows it 100% full.
>>>
>>>
>>> What's the best way of finding out the number of files in folders so
>>> that I can find the one that's eating all my inodes and think about
>>> deleting them?
>>>
>>>
>>> Dan
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