What is INODE?

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What is INODE?..

Answer / satchi

You can say its a pointer to a file or directory.Each file
associated with a inode which contains 2 kinds of
information.
1.File name ,owner,permision
2. The data block for the file.

to see the inode value of a file type
#ls -i <filename>

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What is INODE?..

Answer / seshadri sethi

In Unix all entities are treated as files. for each file,
there is an inode entry in the table, its contain:
(1)Owner of the file.
(2)Group to which the owner belongs.
(3)Type of file.
(4)File access permission.
(5)Date and time of last access.
(6)Date and time of last modification.
(7)Number of lines to the file.
(8)Size of the file.
(9)Address of the file.

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