What is 'inode'?

Answer Posted / 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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