How many files do you have on your computer?

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-01-02 06:20pm

20697 directories, 239426 files (then again, much of that are unpacked source trees), 16017 symlinks, 650 char devices and 22 block devices(would have more if I used as static /dev instead of devfs, hehe)

Total = 276140 files, directories, and symlinks (devices, pipes, etc don't count).

I'm considering a switch to Reiser4 from XFS (just switched to that from Reiser3 last week) somewhere in February, since my computer is kind of flaky, and I get filesystem corruption when it crashes (corrupted my dpkg and aptitude databases for example), since Reiser4 either writes the entire file to the FS or not at all, reducing the risk of corruption (supposedly NTFS already has this- of course they need it more). It supposedly is also very fast, however it may be CPU intensive, so I don't know. Also directories can be files at the same time (don't know how this is useful, perhaps hardlinking directories?).

Techno_Union · Post by **Techno_Union** » 2004-01-02 09:42pm

wow, not sure about all the file but in just one of my games i have around 14,000 and about 40,000 for like 13 files. but i do not even come close to as many as you have

phongn · Post by **phongn** » 2004-01-02 09:53pm

110296 files and 5910 folders on my PC (NTFS 5.1)

Darth Yoshi · Post by **Darth Yoshi** » 2004-01-02 10:10pm

36,242 files, occupying 10.8 out of 19 gigs.

CelesKnight · Post by **CelesKnight** » 2004-01-02 10:23pm

397,000 files counting those in zips (240k without counting those). I didn't count the directories.

Speaking of too many files. I program websites, and one that I worked on had 4 gigs of files.... mostly in PDFs. Another had something like 100,000 product images on it... it makes me wonder WTF do they need with all of those. But then, I wonder that about my own files.

I remember not that far back when I kept all my important files on two floppies... (mumble, mumble, "up hill, both ways" mumble "kids today got no respect" mumble "back in my day" mumble)

Post by **RogueIce** » 2004-01-02 10:34pm

Well, assuming going into the C: drive in My Computer, selecting everything, and right-clicking: Properties will tell me:

My sister's laptop (which is what I am forced to use at the moment) has 36, 257 files in 1,132 folders, all of it equalling up to 5.3 gigs.

Crayz9000 · Post by **Crayz9000** » 2004-01-02 10:43pm

I don't know. Nor do I want to know

Howedar · Post by **Howedar** » 2004-01-02 10:50pm

On my mother's ancient computer that I'm on right now, there are 104,202 files in 1558 folders.

Vertigo1 · Post by **Vertigo1** » 2004-01-02 10:59pm

Too damn much.

Seriously though, I don't have a clue.

Post by **Beowulf** » 2004-01-02 11:19pm

51,095 Files and 5,452 Folders. I should get around to cleaning up my junk...

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2004-01-03 12:35am

Over 470,000 files totalling more than 250 gigabytes of data.

darthdavid · Post by **darthdavid** » 2004-01-03 12:51am

In drive C 119,683 files in 4,695 folders = 14.6 gigabytes out of my 40 gig hd.

lukexcom · Post by **lukexcom** » 2004-01-03 02:05am

192,627 files in 9085 folders, total size of 91.1 gb, spanning 91.3 gb on an NTFS 93.1gb hard disk. I didn't count my Debian partitions on my 30gb hard disk.

I need another hard disk. 1.5gb of free space ain't much to play with, and I'm not comfortable going any lower than 1gb.

neoolong · Post by **neoolong** » 2004-01-03 02:11am

83,354. I feel inadequete now.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2004-01-03 03:23am

okay. now i feel rather. . . .small, compared to the amount of files everyone else has. 19,951 files and 1,604 folders. having a puny 3 gig drive doesn't help much though. . . .and i only have a few hundred megs of space left.

Post by **Kuja** » 2004-01-03 03:32am

38,171 files, 953 foldes.

2,105,561,088 bytes all in all.

I'm sure the numbers on the one downstairs are comparable.

Post by **Dalton** » 2004-01-03 11:39am

182,547 files and 11,603 folders spread across three hard drives and ten partitions (40+80+120=240GB total space).

The Kernel · Post by **The Kernel** » 2004-01-03 11:43am

6,423,250,111 files. All porn.

AnimeJet · Post by **AnimeJet** » 2004-01-03 03:02pm

45,490 files, 6.92 GB out of 74.4GB. Yea, its a new computer.. I haven't install any games.. hell, i think i'll go install Black & White right now...

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2004-01-03 05:06pm

Hehe- looks like I beat everyone who posted # of folders- and used up only 8 GB.

Sharp-kun · Post by **Sharp-kun** » 2004-01-03 05:49pm

101,490 Files

5,553 Folders

Dahak · Post by **Dahak** » 2004-01-03 06:24pm

87090 files in 5458 folders, at 35.89 GB.

Captain Jack · Post by **Captain Jack** » 2004-01-03 06:27pm

14446 files in 948 folders (Fresh install)

Rye · Post by **Rye** » 2004-01-03 08:28pm

On C:\ - 24,326 files, 2,186 Folders.

D:\ - 42, 407 files, 1, 934 Folders,

E:\ - 3, 838 files, 360 folders,

F:\ - 37, 825 files, 2,517 folders.

So, that many, totalled together.

lukexcom · Post by **lukexcom** » 2004-01-04 12:32am

Woot! Just got a 200giger. (Starts mass-downloading porn)