Some files on a Linux system can appear in more than one location. Follow these instructions to find and identify these "identical twins" and learn why hard links can be so advantageous.

Inodes play a crucial role in file identification and retrieval. Unlike some other filesystems (like FAT, which uses a file allocation table), Linux filesystems use inodes to store metadata and ...

It doesn’t take very much time working on a Unix system before your attention is drawn to the mysteries of the inode, especially these days with the concept of metadata getting so much public ...

I bought some new kit for a Linux HTPC. It has a 320g as one of its drives. Last night Debian formatted the drive and I didn't think of the bytes-per-inode setting since I figured it would ...

Inodes are data structures, but they are usually stored on a disk and read into memory for reference and modification. Looking at the inode data structure it's easy to see why 96KB is important. The ...

On the other hand, inode numbers can have six, seven, eight or more digits, ... Linux systems administrator, security engineer and Linux journalist for most of her 30-year career.