An inode is a data structure that stores information about all files created on a hosting account. The number of inodes indicates the number of files, folders, emails, or anything stored on a web hosting account.

Each file on your web hosting account is identified by an inode number in the file system. Additionally, inodes store essential data about files, such as user, group ownership, access mode, and file type.

Check directly from cPanel

1. Log in directly from the cPanel account.

2. Inside the Statistics option, you can get the Inode Value from the File Usage Option.

Check from SSH Login

1. Log in to the server using the SSH command.

2. Ensure that you are in the home directory with the following command –

cd ~

3. Following is the command to check the total inodes on your server –

find . | wc -l

4. Execute the following command if you are looking to view the inode values directory-wise.

find . -printf "%h\n" | cut -d/ -f-2 | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn

sort | uniq -c | sort -rn