It is the system that manages how data is stored and retrieved ... Unlike some other filesystems (like FAT, which uses a file allocation table), Linux filesystems use inodes to store metadata and ...

Inodes are little data structures that define files. In the ext2 file system an inode is 128 bits long. Conveniently, all the stuff that follows applies to both the Linux ext2 file system and the DEC ...

Linux is the most flexible and customizable operating system on the planet. That customizability starts deep within the heart ...

The way the Linux file system is laid out makes perfect sense. I've been using Linux for so many years that I can't imagine another file system making more sense. When I consider how the Windows ...

Its metadata is efficiently managed using traditional inode structures ... every bit of data needed to boot and run a Linux system is stored in a file system. From the operating system itself ...

In a recent post, we looked at how to identify and locate files that are hard links (i.e., that point to the same disk content and share inodes ... places in the file system while not taking ...

It provides a mountable Linux filesystem ... names of files or directories. Symlink information is also kept here. These structures have a reference to the file’s or directory’s inode (a ...

I first tried deleting them by their inode numbers, and failing that by their particular unique file sizes. Neither worked. Luckily, the file names begin with the same unique string, so I ...