There are plenty of utilities (GUI, such as filelight
and TUI, such as dua
as well) for analyzing disk usage by space, but I would like to view my folders based on the count of files, as I’m making backups, and folders with lots of small files (e.g. node_modules
) take very long to move around, so I guess that I’d be better of compressing those into a single file before archiving, as it’s already highly unlikely that I’ll need to access them anyway.
Thanks for any pointers in advance!
Thank you for the idea! I didn’t know about the
--inodes
flag before, this seems like a viable solution for systems where I can’t / don’t want to install additional software!