Inodes play a crucial role in file identification and retrieval. Unlike some other filesystems (like FAT, which uses a file allocation table), Linux filesystems use inodes to store metadata and ...

Question, can inode allocation be changed without recreating the filesystem.

I bought some new kit for a Linux HTPC. It has a 320g as one of its drives. Last night Debian formatted the drive and I didn't think of the bytes-per-inode setting since I figured it would ...

Some files on a Linux system can appear in more than one location. Follow these instructions to find and identify these "identical twins" and learn why hard links can be so advantageous.

My usual strategy for dealing with oddly named files is to list the file’s inode number. After that, I can use the inode number in a file command to remove the file or give it a more well ...

Since Unix directories are simply pairs of filenames and inode numbers, you can use the following Terminal command to locate files that have overlapped extent allocations - all of them contain an ...