If you’re a linux system administrator you’re probably already familiar with the term “inode”. For those of you who are not, an inode is basically a way to measure the amount of files a user has. This includes every email, cache file, image, and so on. If it has a filename it is considered an inode. Normally hosts will use this as a way to determine clients that need to be removed from backups because of the IO load they put on the server from the amount of inodes they have.
A few ways to measure this are…
Using the script I created and posted on GitHub:
https://github.com/tripflex/inodes
Or …
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