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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Inode: is it both unique and 'permanent'? Post 302512820 by methyl on Monday 11th of April 2011 04:47:20 PM
Old 04-11-2011
There is a list of the fields held in an inode in "man inode".

Running a basic editor such as "vi" to change the contents of a file will change the inode number of that file. Try it.
Code:
ls -lisad filename
vi filename
ls -lisad filename

The point was made above but it is very important to understand that inode numbers are only unique within a filesystem. If you are searching for inodes using "find /filesystem -inum" always use the "-xdev" switch to confine your search to that filesystem.
 

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