What is 'inode'?
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Answer / pankaj dhaundiyal
Inode is a unique number given to a file in Unix OS. Every
file in Unix has a inode number. unix treats
directories/folders as a file so they are also having a
inode value.
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Answer / chandra shekhar
When a file system is created, data structures that contain
information about files are created. Each file has an inode
and is identified by an inode number (often "i-number" or
even shorter, "ino") in the file system where it resides.
Inodes store information on files such as user and group
ownership, access mode (read, write, execute permissions)
and type of file. There is a fixed number of inodes, which
indicates the maximum number of files each filesystem can hold.
A file's inode number can be found using the ls -i command,
while the ls -l command will retrieve inode information.
This is description of inode information which it contain:
* The length of the file in bytes.
* Device ID (this identifies the device containing the
file).
* The User ID of the file's owner.
* The Group ID of the file.
* The file mode, which determines what users can read,
write, and execute the file.
* Timestamps telling when the inode itself was last
modified (ctime, change time), the file content last
modified (mtime, modification time), and last accessed
(atime, access time).
* A reference count telling how many hard links point to
the inode.
* Pointers to the disk blocks that store the file's content
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Answer / tamesh sonekar
it is unique id number every file/folder its own inode number
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Answer / evilanubhav
An inode is a data structure on a filesystem on Linux and
other Unix-like operating systems that stores all the
information about a file except its name and its actual data.
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Answer / kishore devkate
In a simple language
INODE is for kernel reference and file is for user
reference.
INODE contain information about file
size,owner,group,permission...etc
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Answer / lili
inode is a data structure which stores basic information
about regular files,directory and other file system object.
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Answer / kapil
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.
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Answer / sivasankar
Theese are objects.solaris oe useses this inodes to record
the info of files.it has two parts. 1 is contains info like
owner,permissions,size of a file. 2 is contains pointers.
theese inodes will be created while the filesystem create.
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Answer / sagar mehtani
Inode is data structure of a file.
Simply just with the help of inode an os can find where
file is a actully on the hard disk and can easily retrive
it.
This is possible just because each and every information of
a file is kept in inode.
A file cannot exit without an inode if this happen's throw
out your file system.
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