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For question pertaining to the inode (index node), a data structure in a Unix-style file system that describes a file-system object such as a file or a directory. Use this tag for questions about the inode data structure itself or questions about issues arising from querying or managing inodes in the scope of a filesystem.

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It appears that it is possible on a network mount to set a quota on how much space a user can consume. # edquota ramesh Disk quotas for user ramesh (uid 500): Filesystem blocks ...
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My server keeps running short on inodes due the mail queue getting crazy. First, I assumed I had postfix not configured properly, so I switched it off. But, it happened again, last time I did it I had ...
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I'm aware that Linux does not allow hard-linking to a directory. I read somewhere, that this is to prevent unintentional loops (or graphs, instead of the more desirable tree structure) in the file-...
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I hope I've got this right: A file's inode contains data such as inode number, time of last modification, ownership etc. – and also the entry: »deletion time«. Which made me curious: ...
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I've accidentally deleted some files in my package managers's cache after an update (so I've deleted all packages that were downloade and unforunately they weren't even installed). Here's what I've ...
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I have been asked to recover some files from a corrupt Linux partition. The partition data is shot to pieces but i have been able to locate the file names and the associated Inode number. Using ...
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I would like to find all the files of my system, which sizes are more than a couple gigabits. I thought I would use find -size, but the man page states: The size does not count indirect blocks If I ...
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I have seen in this page that inodes have a link counter to know how many files (read: "directory entry") point to this inode. Is there a way to know which directories contain such entries without ...
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Say I am running a software, and then I run package manager to upgrade the software, I notice that Linux does not bring down the running process for package upgrade - it is still running fine. How ...
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Can anyone tell me if this is true or false? Does the inode of a file have the addresses of blocks containing the file's content? Also for the permission command, there was a question asking that I ...
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I am trying to learn about iNodes and file permissions. I thought that there is one inode that holds the permissions for a single file. The OS pulls a single inode into memory to check permissions for ...
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I have a web-site that I'm checking for performance issues and bugs, and i came across a caching code that caches thousands of files into one single directory. I understand that this is not good and ...
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Say I want to observe how the flow from file name to cluster on hard disc goes. I get the inode number of I file (which is mapped in a directory data): 1863 autorun.inf So, now i know that i have to ...
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I wonder if storing the information about files in inodes instead of directly in the directory is worth the additional overhead. It may be well that I'm overestimating the overhead or overlooking some ...
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I'm working with a large (8TB) EXT4 filesystem in linux. After a power outage, the filesystem wouldn't mount. fsck is taking weeks to complete, but i ran testdisk and i'm able to see my partition ...
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When I edit a file in the vi editor, the inode value of the file changes. But when edited with the cat command, the inode value does not change.
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I know a little about linux kernel. BUt for Freebsd, the "vnode" actually is similar to the "inode" in Linux kernel. And there is a "inode" concept in FreeBSD or Solaris. So my question is: what is "...
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I checked manual of find , and there's an option -ctime which specify the last modification time of inode. But on what occasion would inode change ? When is that option useful ?
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I had a problem (new to me) last week. I have a ext4 (Fedora 15) filesystem. The application that runs on the server suddenly stopped. I couldn't find the problem at first look. df showed 50% ...
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Can I safely conclude that the sticky bit is not used in current file sysems and reuse the bit for my own purpose.
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Is there any tools or some way in linux which can be used to view internals of filesystems ? How to view the inode related structures and journal ? and cached pages of files (pagecache).
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Hi I am investigating tripwire and have stumbled upon something which i am unsure about. in a tripwire report generated after i modified hosts.deny to include an extra # I noticed the inode number ...
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I want to see how many files are in subdirectories to find out where all the inode usage is on the system. Kind of like I would do this for space usage du -sh /* which will give me the space used in ...
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