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# 1  
Old 03-15-2012
Alternative to df -i for listing inodes information
Hi all,

I have a combination of Linux and Solaris servers and df -i on Linux works but not on Solaris.

Solaris OS info as below:

Code:
server01(oper01)[]/home/oper01$: df -k /db/devdb01
Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
/vx_mnt/db/devdb01     943018112 890853384 51918376    95%    /vx_mnt/db/devdb01
server01(oper01)[]/home/oper01$: df -i /db/devdb01
df: unknown option: i
Usage: df [-F FSType] [-abeghklntVvZ] [-o FSType-specific_options] [directory | block_device | resource]
server01(oper01)[]/home/oper01$: cat /etc/release
                      Solaris 10 10/08 s10s_u6wos_07b SPARC
           Copyright 2008 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
                        Use is subject to license terms.
                            Assembled 27 October 2008
server01(oper01)[]/home/oper01$:

Is there another command that I can use to list inode information. Am basically wanting to check inode information in a volume/filesystem or a directory, how many is there, free, used etc.

Any advise much appreciated. Thanks in advance.
# 2  
Old 03-15-2012
solaris:

Code:
df -o i [ path ]

# 3  
Old 03-20-2012
Code:
df -o i

works only for UFS type file systems in Solaris.

try
Code:
/usr/ucb/df -i

for dislpaying inode info of all UFS file systems in the host.


By the way, we can list the inode info of all types of file systems (including tmpfs) in Linux but only those of UFS in Solaris. Why so?


--> In Solaris:

Code:
 
#df -o i
df: operation not applicable for FSType ctfs
df: operation not applicable for FSType devfs
df: operation not applicable for FSType fd
df: operation not applicable for FSType hsfs
df: operation not applicable for FSType lofs
df: operation not applicable for FSType mntfs
df: operation not applicable for FSType nfs
df: operation not applicable for FSType objfs
df: operation not applicable for FSType proc
df: operation not applicable for FSType sharefs
df: operation not applicable for FSType tmpfs
Filesystem             iused   ifree  %iused  Mounted on
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0      781232 5287376    13%   /


--> In Linux:

Code:
 
# df -iT
Filesystem    Type    Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
              ext3   2340864  179861 2161003    8% /
/dev/sda1     ext3     26104      45   26059    1% /boot
tmpfs        tmpfs    129388       1  129387    1% /dev/shm

Last edited by satish51392111; 03-20-2012 at 08:44 AM.. Reason: Illustration
# 4  
Old 03-20-2012
I suspect it is because they are psuedo file systems.
# 5  
Old 03-20-2012
Code:
/usr/bin/df -o i -F ufs

or install the GNU df
# 6  
Old 03-21-2012
Quote:
Originally Posted by fpmurphy
I suspect it is because they are psuedo file systems.
Of course they are! UFS is disk based while tmpfs,procfs,etc., are Psuedo file systems.

My doubt is while Linux can display inode usage of both types of file systems, why can't Soalris? I don't know if this question is vague.
# 7  
Old 03-21-2012
Solaris can display inode usage values on tmpfs. You can get them by using the -g option:
Code:
$ df -g /tmp
/tmp               (swap              ):         4096 block size          4096 frag size
 5522968 total blocks    5522896 free blocks  5522896 available         203559 total files
  203348 free files     78643202 filesys id  /tmp
   tmpfs fstype       0x00000004 flag             255 filename length

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