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Complete Guide on Inode Numbers in Linux with Examples

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Gagan Mishra
Jan 5, 2022

I’m going to ask you a question. What do you see when you pass the ls -l command? Likely a list of files with a bunch of details like permission, number of files, file owner, group owner, size, date & time along with a file name. And even more data can be accessed using different parameters. But have you ever wondered where all that data gets stored, and what we call this data of type?

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Gagan Mishra

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