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a brand new minimal install of Ubuntu MATE hovers around 700,000 files. If you can't imagine how that might inflate, I don't know what to tell you.

• crazygringo 4y ago
  Wait, really? Coming from Windows and macOS that boggles my mind. What on earth are the main contributors to that file count? I can't even begin to imagine, but I'm incredibly curious now. Also, that seems like an enormous waste of disk space. Assuming a 4 KB block size means roughly an average of 2 KB of space is wasted per file, which for 700K files would total well over a gigabyte of wasted space. Yikes.
  • pxoe 4y ago
    well, it's not like windows is too far off - on my w10 install, c:/windows/ comes up to about 280k files. (and in total, that small-ish system drive, 40 gb, has about 380k files on it. i'd imagine macos has numbers that go something like that as well, since it is a *nix system.
  • marwis 4y ago
    Many filesystems, ext4 included, support inlining of small files directly in filesystem metadata to avoid such waste.