"The Hard Disk You've Been Waiting For"

It was thus said that the Great Jules Richardson once stated: I actually have hard numbers for my system here (last calculated a few months ago). For my home directory ($HOME, running a Linux system here) the stats are: Files: 503444 Largest path: 339 Largest filename: 85 Largest extention: 59 Largest MIME type: 29 Longest username: 9 Longest groupname: 9 (count) (bytes) count: 503444 46860976844 files: 466163 46709437848 dirs: 35360 151490560 char-device: 0 0 block-device: 0 0 named-pipe: 1 0 symlink: 1918 47753 socket: 0 0 others: 2 683 average size: 93080 median: 3958 and for everything *but* $HOME: Files: 385096 Largest path: 124 Largest filename: 73 Largest extention: 39 Largest MIME type: 25 Longest username: 9 Longest groupname: 9 count: 385096 8563122958 files: 332846 8428072197 dirs: 33266 134631740 char-device: 181 0 block-device: 106 0 named-pipe: 3 0 symlink: 18665 418338 socket: 28 0 others: 1 683 average size: 22236 median: 2826 This, on a 150G drive. -spc (And the sizes almost follow Benford's Law [1][2]) [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1076788 [2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1076405