Hi, I know that inode for each file is unique, but is it the for the directory? So far I found different directories has the same inode nubmer when you do ls -i, could some one explain why? Thanks a lot. (9 Replies)
as kernel keeps track of user activities on a file by its INODE number and I node table .
what is the structure of Inode table. and where does this Inode table mapped into?user space or kernel space?
is the Inode Number is fixed for a file till its deletion?
thanks (1 Reply)
Hi all
when I execute pmap command on one of my daemon process, I am able to see the following output.
Address Kbytes RSS Anon Locked Mode Mapped File
00010000 40 40 - - r-x-- irs026bmd
00028000 56 56 16 - rwx-- irs026bmd
00036000... (3 Replies)
How we can know number of inode present in my Disk including free and occupied.
Is there any tool or program to know how much free inode are there in inode free list . (2 Replies)
At risk of twisting the rules to nearly the point of breaking (if you think this goes too far mods, I apologise and accept that this should be deleted), I'm hoping someone might be able to cast a little light on the following problem regarding hard links to files.
... (6 Replies)
Hi Gurus
I want to know the command & tips regarding, how to increase or decrease inode number of the particular ufs filesystem. Is it possible to do it in a live/production environment.
Regards (3 Replies)
How to get the filename of which has been deleted if I know the inode number.
i can use the command "istat" to get the inode number of the file.
# istat
/proc//fd/x
If this file has been deleted,but the process of this file has not been closed and handle has not been released ,so this... (3 Replies)
Hi all,
I am struggling to change the content of a file without changing the inode number. The exact issue is as below.
I have a file name test.bak which has 100 lines of text.
I am trying to to delete the first 90 lines of the text in the file.
I know that using sed/awk/head/tail I can... (3 Replies)
Hi,
I have created a file abc.log in Redhat Linux.
Inode number for a file get changes every time i update the file using vi editor.
Is there any setting that can be made , such that inode number never gets changed?
Or if we cannot restrict from inode number getting changed , is... (9 Replies)
Some one please help me to find deleted file name, if I am having inode number in Solaris without using any 3rd party tool.
Thanks :) (3 Replies)
Discussion started by: aksijain
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LEARN ABOUT SUSE
stat
STAT(1) User Commands STAT(1)NAME
stat - display file or file system status
SYNOPSIS
stat [OPTION]... FILE...
DESCRIPTION
Display file or file system status.
-L, --dereference
follow links
-f, --file-system
display file system status instead of file status
-c--format=FORMAT
use the specified FORMAT instead of the default; output a newline after each use of FORMAT
--printf=FORMAT
like --format, but interpret backslash escapes, and do not output a mandatory trailing newline. If you want a newline, include
in FORMAT.
-t, --terse
print the information in terse form
--help display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
The valid format sequences for files (without --file-system):
%a Access rights in octal
%A Access rights in human readable form
%b Number of blocks allocated (see %B)
%B The size in bytes of each block reported by %b
%C SELinux security context string
%d Device number in decimal
%D Device number in hex
%f Raw mode in hex
%F File type
%g Group ID of owner
%G Group name of owner
%h Number of hard links
%i Inode number
%n File name
%N Quoted file name with dereference if symbolic link
%o I/O block size
%s Total size, in bytes
%t Major device type in hex
%T Minor device type in hex
%u User ID of owner
%U User name of owner
%x Time of last access
%X Time of last access as seconds since Epoch
%y Time of last modification
%Y Time of last modification as seconds since Epoch
%z Time of last change
%Z Time of last change as seconds since Epoch
Valid format sequences for file systems:
%a Free blocks available to non-superuser
%b Total data blocks in file system
%c Total file nodes in file system
%d Free file nodes in file system
%f Free blocks in file system
%C SELinux security context string
%i File System ID in hex
%l Maximum length of filenames
%n File name
%s Block size (for faster transfers)
%S Fundamental block size (for block counts)
%t Type in hex
%T Type in human readable form
NOTE: your shell may have its own version of stat, which usually supersedes the version described here. Please refer to your shell's docu-
mentation for details about the options it supports.
AUTHOR
Written by Michael Meskes.
REPORTING BUGS
Report stat bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO stat(2)
The full documentation for stat is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and stat programs are properly installed at your site, the
command
info coreutils 'stat invocation'
should give you access to the complete manual.
GNU coreutils 7.1 July 2010 STAT(1)