lib/PublicInbox/AdminEdit.pm | 12 ++++++------

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/AdminEdit.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/AdminEdit.pm
index 169feba0dba9dbe8f3aa3778f4635e9a973118c6..2e2a8629da2806f09df171422afc7c012fad4246 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/AdminEdit.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/AdminEdit.pm
@@ -29,15 +29,15 @@ 		$ibx->over or die "no over.sqlite3 in $ibx->{mainrepo}\n";
 
 		# $ibx->{search} is populated by $ibx->over call
 		my $xdir_ro = $ibx->{search}->xdir(1);
-		my $npart = 0;
-		foreach my $part (<$xdir_ro/*>) {
-			if (-d $part && $part =~ m!/[0-9]+\z!) {
+		my $nshard = 0;
+		foreach my $shard (<$xdir_ro/*>) {
+			if (-d $shard && $shard =~ m!/[0-9]+\z!) {
 				my $bytes = 0;
-				$bytes += -s $_ foreach glob("$part/*");
-				$npart++ if $bytes;
+				$bytes += -s $_ foreach glob("$shard/*");
+				$nshard++ if $bytes;
 			}
 		}
-		if ($npart) {
+		if ($nshard) {
 			PublicInbox::Admin::require_or_die('-search');
 		} else {
 			# somebody could "rm -r" all the Xapian directories;