How to find out how many inodes you are using on a hard disk or in a directory?
To find the inode limit for your whole disk or VPS
df -i
To find and display how many inodes are in a certain directory and list all the subdirectories , go to the directory and run:
echo "Detailed Inode usage for: $(pwd)" ; for d in `find -maxdepth 1 -type d |cut -d\/ -f2 |grep -xv . |sort`; do c=$(find $d |wc -l) ; printf "$c\t\t- $d\n" ; done ; printf "Total: \t\t$(find $(pwd) | wc -l)\n"
Output will be similar to below
[/tmp]# echo "Detailed Inode usage for: $(pwd)" ; for d in `find -maxdepth 1 -type d |cut -d\/ -f2 |grep -xv . |sort`; do c=$(find $d |wc -l) ; printf "$c\t\t- $d\n" ; done ; printf "Total: \t\t$(find $(pwd) | wc -l)\n" Detailed Inode usage for: /tmp 273 - eaccelerator 1 - .ICE-unix 1 - lost+found 3 - pear 1 - pyzor 1 - .pyzor 1 - update-cache-11970678 1 - update-cache-584a17d2 49 - update-extraction-11970678 1 - update-extraction-584a17d2 Total: 16034
