File counter to use when your run low of inodes and your system has only one partition. It is ugly, unpolished, unfinished and works perfectly for me ;)

filecounter.py

#!/usr/bin/env python

import os 
import sys

root_dir = str(sys.argv[1])
total = 0

def look_dirs(root_dir):
	dir_list = []
	for dirs in os.listdir(root_dir):
		dir_list.append(os.path.join(root_dir,dirs))
	return dir_list

def count_files(dir_list):
	file_number = []
	for (path, dirs, files) in os.walk(dir_list):
		for file_name in files:
			if os.path.isfile(os.path.join(path, file_name)): 
				file_number.append(file_name)
	return len(file_number)
		
for dirs in look_dirs(root_dir):
		if os.path.isdir(dirs):
			print str(dirs) + " " + str(count_files(dirs))
		total += count_files(dirs)

print "Total " + str(total)