sridhar_madadi

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• Sep 23rd, 2005

 

The UNIX disk object that represents the existence of a file. The inode records owner and group IDs, Fstype, Date & time last access, last modification, n/o links, size of file, addresses of blocks where the file is physically present and permissions

suraj

 Profile Answers by suraj 

• Oct 17th, 2005

 

The inode is the focus of all file activity in the file system. There is a unique inode allocated for each active file, each current directory, each mounted-on file, text file, and the  root.  An inode is "named" by its device/i-number pair.

apiplani

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• Dec 13th, 2005

 

You can check the inode number of a file by typing ls -li

To add to the definition, when you create a hard link, it is actually another file gets created with the same inode number. so in a way there is only one inode number which is associated with two file names having diffrent locations on the disk but acutually refering to the same file. In this case when you call a delete (rm) on one of hte files you are actually not deleting the file, indeed you are deleting a reference to the file.

Mukund

• Aug 1st, 2006

 

You can delete the file based on the inode entry with the following command

find . -inum <number> -exec rm -f {} ;

Regards

Mukund

Navaneethan, B.Tech(IT)

• Aug 4th, 2006

 

Hi, Inode which is to describe the file's starting address. It's managed by the linux OS. Each file has its own inode number (you can remember it as a file pointer by OS as in C terms).

varun koli

• Jul 17th, 2007

 

A unique number associated with each filename. This number is used to look up an entry in the inode table which gives information on the type, size, and location of the file and the userid of the owner of the file.


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varun koli

moorthyvsm

• Sep 3rd, 2007

 

A unique number associated with each filename. This number is used to look up an entry in the inode table which gives information on the type, size, and location of the file and the userid of the owner of the file.

zorba

• Nov 3rd, 2007

 

an inode is a data structure on a traditional Unix-style file system such as UFS. An inode stores basic information about a regular file, directory, or other file system object
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inode