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 ...

Inodes, block sizes, and data structures are fundamental components of Linux filesystems. Understanding these concepts is crucial for managing and optimizing filesystems effectively.

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 ...

My usual strategy for dealing with oddly named files is to list the file’s inode number. After that, I can use the inode number in a file command to remove the file or give it a more well ...

But you won't be able to fool one that has run out of free inodes, at least not until you delete something and free up an inode. Soft links, being files that point to other directory entries, require ...

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 ...