1. Filesystems, Disks and Memory

Could someone please explain to me the concept of INodes? Colour me a DOS/MacOS junkie, but I don't quite understand. Is there any relation to clusters, or physical distro.? ty. (3 Replies)

2. Solaris

Does anyone know what command I can run to check how many inodes are in use on a specific filesystem. On Data General servers I used to run the df -k command to check the status of the inodes for all file system.s (1 Reply)

3. Solaris

hi i need to find all the files that r linked to the current file as i need to delete the file as well as few of its links :confused: thnx in advance (1 Reply)

4. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

how is the location of inodes in the physical disk. are they sequential like: bootblock|superblock|inode1|inode2| ....| datablock1|datablock2|datablock3 or are they distributed among data blocks like: bootblock|superblock|inode1|datablock1|inode2|datablock2|datablock3|inode3 |datablock4 (3 Replies)

5. Filesystems, Disks and Memory

I want to export the file system which consist of several partition. For example I export / and there are /home, /usr partitions. On client side I can see all files in /, but /home and /usr are empty. So far I failed to find the way to make other partitions visible in one mount. :confused: Of... (2 Replies)

6. Linux

Any good sites, tutorials that explain Inodes clearly and completely ? (3 Replies)

7. Solaris

Hey guys how do you determine what kind of Filesystem(vxfs) does a particular partition has. Also how do you determine how many inodes it has and how my is used and free. (3 Replies)

8. Filesystems, Disks and Memory

Hi, sorry to have written in other language i think i could do that. I would to know A file system use inodes indexed allocation as a method of allocating space. In the inode blocks are 10 references to direct, 1 indirect reference to a single block, 1 block indirect reference to a reference to... (1 Reply)

9. UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi, I wanted to find out that in my database server which filesystems are shared storage and which filesystems are local. Like when I use df -k, it shows "filesystem" and "mounted on" but I want to know which one is shared and which one is local. Please tell me the commands which I can run... (2 Replies)

10. UNIX for Advanced & Expert Users

How can i trace Inode structure and modify it in UNIX kernel? We want to change the inode structure in the sense that we want to add a new field to the inode data structure. So we want to know how and where to trace inode (7 Replies)