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Hi, Plz suggest how i can capture the inode count in the file system and how i can put that count in to the variable for further operations .... Its ...
  1. 02-10-2009 #1
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    C prgram to capture 'inode' count in file system

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    Plz suggest how i can capture the inode count in the file system and how i can put that count in to the variable for further operations ....

    Its very urgent .....request yout ot send the response...
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    If you are using ext2/ext3 file system,then get super block details from offset 1024 and from there get the free/used inode count on your machine.

    Check out ext3/ext2 File system tools like debugfs or ext2ed or e2fsprogs or giis.
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    thanks for the reply.

    I need to capture it in variable , eg : inode_count = 6 were free. how i can do it from c program
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