On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 4:57 PM, Bob Gustafson wrote: > On Wed, 2012-02-01 at 09:02 -0500, Daniel J Walsh wrote: > > On 01/31/2012 05:06 PM, m.roth@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > Y'know, folks, fsck -c gives you a clue that not only is it > > > running, but a vague feel for how much longer it'll be. > > > .autorelabel, esp with several 2TB drives in a system, gives > > > screens and screens and screens of asterisks, with no clue if it'll > > > *ever* finish (which matters, when I'm going to be leaving soon, > > > and it needs to be up for an overnight backup....) > > > > > > mark > > > > > > -- selinux mailing list selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/selinux > > > > > > > > Give me a mechanism to know how many files are on the file system and > > I might be able to give you an idea. > > > > Basically this is doing a > > > > find / > > > > I don't think there is a way to know how many files are left. > > -- > > I was also troubled by the 'endless' stream of asterisks. > > Perhaps some sort of heuristic - like disk size(s) divided by 'average' > file size. Also don't know the value of one asterisk - is it 100 files? > > A few more experiments would give something that would be +- 30% This > would be better than nothing. > > Bob G > "df -i" gives a summary of used inodes that corresponds to the number of files in my ext4 /boot and /home file systems very closely. The root file system inum count is about 14,000 more than find / -mount | wc -l But perhaps this could provide a good base number. Fred -- selinux mailing list selinux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/selinux