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From: Jeff Breidenbach <jeff@jab.org>
Subject: Re: fast approximate file count
Date: 22 Sep 2002 19:30:27 -0700
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To: Chris Wedgwood <cw@f00f.org>
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df -i does not work for reiserfs, at least under Debian 3.0.
For example, the following partition is actually more than 10% 
full.

Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/sdb1            4294967295       0 4294967295    0% /home/archive

>From responses so far, my understanding is there may be
a partition-wide file counter possible in the future.

However, it also sounds like there is little to no chance of a
reiserfs-specific fast approximate file counter that will work on a
directory subtree, even if that subtree is very wide and shallow.

-Jeff


On Sun, 2002-09-22 at 19:07, Chris Wedgwood wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2002 at 10:36:23PM -0700, Jeff Breidenbach wrote:
> 
> > Now that I have millions of small files on my reiserfs partition,
> > I'd like to know if there is reiserfs specific way to count them
> > very quickly.
> 
> Does df -i work?
> 
> 
>   --cw
>