The peer-to-peer file sharing tool LimeWire - updated to version 3.3.4 yesterday - is apparently one cause of "overlapped extent allocation" errors (meaning that you have two files referencing the ...

In order to improve file system performance, many Unix systems turn off atime updates -- at least for file systems in which files are frequently accessed while updating the access time for each ...

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.

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 ...

I am currently writing a version of File Tree Walk for my systems programming class for the UNIX operating system. I was wondering if there was a verion of the stat function that takes an inode ...

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.