Re: Number of files in a directory?

[Noah]

On Thu, Mar 10, 2005 at 03:49:10PM -0500, nathan r. hruby wrote:
> This seems kinda like a kludge.  Anyone have any better suggestions for
> monitoring the number of files in a directory?

If the following conditions are met:

    * you're running solaris
    * /var/spool/mqueue is a filesystem unto itself

...you can run 'df -g' to dump out the statvfs struct (Solaris' 'df'
only):

# /bin/df -g /
/                  (/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 ):         8192 block size
1024 frag size  
 4107210 total blocks    3980428 free blocks  3857212 available
344448 total files
  341961 free files      8388608 filesys id  
     ufs fstype       0x00000004 flag             255 filename length

Then subtract 'free files' from 'total files' to get the number of files
on the FS (more or less).

--n

-- 
<huey> dd of=/dev/fd0 if=/dev/flippy bs=1024
<huey> ^^^ Making Flippy Floppy