Links in Linux are like shortcuts: references to a file that don't duplicate it. A symbolic link references by filename but ...

This number is used by the filesystem to access the inode and its associated data. When a file is accessed, the operating system uses the inode number to locate the inode, which then provides the ...

The first column shows the inode number. Then we see file permissions, links, owner, file size, date information, and the names of the files that refer to the same disk content.

Inodes are a limited resource. When you create a file system, you determine the number of inodes you create, and that's that. If you run out of inodes because you put lots of tiny files on a partition ...

The number 33188 is 0100644 in octal and that number ANDed with 07777 yields 644. This printf statement will, therefore, print the phrase “Permissions are 0644”.