Re: inodes, customizing partitions

From	"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid>
Newsgroups	comp.os.linux.misc
Subject	Re: inodes, customizing partitions
Date	2025-10-11 15:28 +0200
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On 2025-10-11 06:57, c186282 wrote:
> On 10/10/25 03:45, Carlos E.R. wrote:
>> On 2025-10-09 17:07, Rich wrote:
>>> The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
>>>> On 08/10/2025 22:29, John Ames wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 8 Oct 2025 21:13:01 -0000 (UTC)
>>>>> Lawrence D’Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

...

>>> A quick check here with 'df -i' shows all but one mounted filesystem in
>>> the single digit percentage usage of inodes.  The one 'worst' case (a
>>> 4T disk for media encoding/transcoding and other misc usages) is only
>>> consuming 17% of its max inodes.
>>
>> Telcontar:~ # df -i
>> Filesystem                         Inodes   IUsed      IFree IUse% 
>> Mounted on
>> /dev/nvme0n1p5                    9830400 2135223    7695177   22% /
>> ...
>> /dev/sdc9                        16777216 1632362   15144854   10% / 
>> data/WasReiserfs        (holds the news spool)
>> ...
>> /dev/sdb10                       15295056  943965   14351091    7% / 
>> data/storage_b
>> /dev/sdc10                        2621440  131132    2490308    6% / 
>> usr/ local
>> ...
> 
>    We tend to think about inodes less and less these
>    days as both CPUs got more powerful and disks got
>    much larger and faster.
> 
>    However sometimes you DO need to think about them,
>    especially for certain environments, usually servers.
>    Are you going to be storing a few BIG files or a
>    zillion TINY files ? Adjustments to block sizes
>    and inode params may be advised.

Well, you can see that my root filesystem has a high percent of used 
inodes, more than the /data/WasReiserfs which holds the news spool and 
is customized for many small files.

I'd like to know the inode percent per directory in a partition. Chatgpt 
suggests

du --inodes -d 1

-- 
Cheers, Carlos.
ES🇪🇸, EU🇪🇺;

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