What is an inode?
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Answer / amit kumar verma
An inode is a data structure holding information about files
in a Linux file system. There is an inode for each file, and
a file is uniquely identified by the file system on which it
resides and its inode number on that system.
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Answer / mcmarc
an inode is an number used to denote file names to the exact
location in a disk. each file has a unique inode.
the inode table consists of file type, permissions, user uid,etc
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Answer / sudhakar.g
Inode Its contains the information about the file, Which is
owned by whom,eg - lIke user owner and group owner. and
created date,modification time and file path.
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