[GEEK] Half a million files. Oy.

[jducoeur]

Y'know, I remember my first hard drive: a boat anchor that held five meg. At the time, it seemed enormous, but it occurs to me that I knew pretty much all of the files on it.

Well, I just installed our latest backup solution: a Maxtor One Touch hard drive -- not perfect, but better than most home options. In the course of the initial backup, Norton noticed a couple of files sitting in the recycle bin that had virii in them; just to be safe, I cleaned the bin and reran a full system scan.

Sheesh. My C drive, which isn't a third full, has over five hundred thousand files on it. There are entire deep directory trees whose purpose is completely unknown to me. The old-fashioned programmer in me is really rather disturbed by that: I'm the kind of person who likes to understand my systems right down to the assembly level, and the notion that I have only the most tenuous grasp on the contents of my home computer is unsettling...

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[zachkessin.livejournal.com]

Now you have me wondering, so I've decided to find out how many files are on my rather well stocked fedora linux box. I have about 100gb total of stuff (I've turned into quite the downloader)
well acording to the check, its 283,301

WOW

[goldsquare.livejournal.com]

Y'know, I remember my first hard drive: a boat anchor that held five meg.

I remember tha t monster - the size of a decent TV, noisy, and about 3,000 USD in 1982-ish dollars. Woah. You could drive something pretty good for that money, then.

I'm too friggin' old.

How many...

[metageek.livejournal.com]

678,064

Mind you, 160,243 are in my Linux-From-Scratch partition (in progress), where I'm working on compiling the entire OS from source.