How many inodes does a folder use?

Asked Sep 10 '20 at 18:43

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I'm on Ubuntu 18.04.

I have a folder with lots (several hundreds thousands) files.

I would like to see how many inodes does this folder use on the file system.

How to achieve that?

The df -i command applies on the whole file system, I need to be "folder-specific".

asked Sep 10 '20 at 18:43

s.k

du will do inodes, too. See man du. – user535733 Sep 10 '20 at 18:46
I am actually not able to find the word 'inode' on the du manpage. Is that normal? Does it use a synonym? If so, which one is it? – s.k Sep 10 '20 at 18:51
look again, it's --inodes – ubfan1 Sep 10 '20 at 19:04
you seemed right, this manpage is more up-to-date: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/du.1.html – s.k Sep 10 '20 at 19:08

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