On Monday 29 February 2016, Fernando Pereira wrote: > Hello everybody, > > First post here, so sorry if I lack knowledge on the details... > I'm doing system admin in a company and user directories here get > pretty big sometimes. Not only they reach 100GB easily but they are > produce millions of small files due to their work nature. > So, a very "simple" old task is to check the users space consumption > and, btw, check if they don't have a hot directory with many many > small files, which then should be archived. > > Anyway, I was looking for the most efficient way to do that and I > couldn't find satisfying answer. Of course we can use find | wc, but > I am really looking for a simple and efficient solution just like du > exists for the file size. > IMHO, obtaining the file count in a given directory seems a kind of > "disk usage", and the same way that with df one can see inodes, why > not having a file count option to du? > > I would like to know if this is against the concept of du. Otherwise > I think it would help many people out there, and I might be able to > contribute to its implementation.
What about "du --inodes"? coreutils >= 8.22 cu, Rudi
