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How many files do you have on your computer?

Posted: 2004-01-02 06:20pm
by Pu-239
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?).

Posted: 2004-01-02 09:42pm
by Techno_Union
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

Posted: 2004-01-02 09:53pm
by phongn
110296 files and 5910 folders on my PC (NTFS 5.1)

Posted: 2004-01-02 10:10pm
by Darth Yoshi
36,242 files, occupying 10.8 out of 19 gigs.

Posted: 2004-01-02 10:23pm
by CelesKnight
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)

Posted: 2004-01-02 10:34pm
by RogueIce
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.

Posted: 2004-01-02 10:43pm
by Crayz9000
I don't know. Nor do I want to know ;)

Posted: 2004-01-02 10:50pm
by Howedar
On my mother's ancient computer that I'm on right now, there are 104,202 files in 1558 folders.

Posted: 2004-01-02 10:59pm
by Vertigo1
Too damn much.

Seriously though, I don't have a clue.

Posted: 2004-01-02 11:19pm
by Beowulf
51,095 Files and 5,452 Folders. I should get around to cleaning up my junk...

Posted: 2004-01-03 12:35am
by Uraniun235
Over 470,000 files totalling more than 250 gigabytes of data.

Posted: 2004-01-03 12:51am
by darthdavid
In drive C 119,683 files in 4,695 folders = 14.6 gigabytes out of my 40 gig hd.

Posted: 2004-01-03 02:05am
by lukexcom
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.

Posted: 2004-01-03 02:11am
by neoolong
83,354. I feel inadequete now.

Posted: 2004-01-03 03:23am
by General Zod
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.

Posted: 2004-01-03 03:32am
by Kuja
38,171 files, 953 foldes.

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

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

Posted: 2004-01-03 11:39am
by Dalton
182,547 files and 11,603 folders spread across three hard drives and ten partitions (40+80+120=240GB total space).

Posted: 2004-01-03 11:43am
by The Kernel
6,423,250,111 files. All porn.

Posted: 2004-01-03 03:02pm
by AnimeJet
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...

Posted: 2004-01-03 05:06pm
by Pu-239
Hehe- looks like I beat everyone who posted # of folders- and used up only 8 GB.

Posted: 2004-01-03 05:49pm
by Sharp-kun
101,490 Files

5,553 Folders

Posted: 2004-01-03 06:24pm
by Dahak
87090 files in 5458 folders, at 35.89 GB.

Posted: 2004-01-03 06:27pm
by Captain Jack
14446 files in 948 folders (Fresh install)

Posted: 2004-01-03 08:28pm
by Rye
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.

Posted: 2004-01-04 12:32am
by lukexcom
Woot! Just got a 200giger. (Starts mass-downloading porn) :D