Thank you all for replying. I understand the link to directories has the same inode number, and yes,if it is a different file system, it may have the same inode number also. But here is what I found out from Solaris 10 (SPARCS) file system . Below you would find that /usr, /usr/bin, /var/sadm all of them have the same inode nubmer 4, and they are under the same file system and no links between them...Could someone help to explain why the inode number is not unique? Thanks a lot.
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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?
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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)
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)
I try to understand the meaning of an inode. I wonder whether
an inode is unique (I'm pretty sure it is) and
whether it remains the same inode regardless of whatever happens to the file, dir or whatever?
I read somewhere that an inode stores info about the file, size... so changing the... (4 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)
Hi,
I have created a file a.txt in Redhat Linux.
Inode number for a file changes every time i update the file using vi editor , gedit etc.
Is there any setting that can be made , such that inode number never changes as that is supposed to be the expected behavior?
Or if we cannot... (13 Replies)
I have a directory of files, I can show the number of lines in each file and order them from lowest to highest with:
wc -l *|sort
15263 Image.txt
16401 reference.txt
40459 richtexteditor.txt
How can I also print the number of unique lines in each file?
15263 1401 Image.txt
16401... (15 Replies)
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ntfscp
NTFSCP(8) System Manager's Manual NTFSCP(8)NAME
ntfscp - overwrite file on an NTFS volume.
SYNOPSIS
ntfscp [options] device source_file destination
DESCRIPTION
ntfscp will overwrite file on an NTFS volume. At present ntfscp can't create new files. destination can be either file or directory. In
case if destination is directory specified by name then source_file is copied into this directory, in case if destination is directory and
specified by inode number then unnamed data attribute is created for this inode and source_file is copied into it (WARNING: it's unusual to
have unnamed data streams in the directories, think twice before specifying directory by inode number).
OPTIONS
Below is a summary of all the options that ntfscp accepts. Nearly all options have two equivalent names. The short name is preceded by -
and the long name is preceded by --. Any single letter options, that don't take an argument, can be combined into a single command, e.g.
-fv is equivalent to -f -v. Long named options can be abbreviated to any unique prefix of their name.
-a, --attribute NUM
Write to this attribute.
-i, --inode
Treat destination as inode number.
-N, --attr-name NAME
Write to attribute with this name.
-n, --no-action
Use this option to make a test run before doing the real copy operation. Volume will be opened read-only and no write will be done.
-f, --force
This will override some sensible defaults, such as not working with a mounted volume. Use this option with caution.
-h, --help
Show a list of options with a brief description of each one.
-q, --quiet
Suppress some debug/warning/error messages.
-V, --version
Show the version number, copyright and license ntfscp.
-v, --verbose
Display more debug/warning/error messages.
DATA STREAMS
All data on NTFS is stored in streams, which can have names. A file can have more than one data streams, but exactly one must have no name.
The size of a file is the size of its unnamed data stream. Usually when you don't specify stream name you are access to unnamed data
stream. If you want access to named data stream you need to add ":stream_name" to the filename. For example: by opening "some.mp3:artist"
you will open stream "artist" in "some.mp3". But windows usually prevent you from accessing to named data streams, so you need to use some
program like FAR or utils from cygwin to access named data streams.
EXAMPLES
Copy new_boot.ini from /home/user as boot.ini to the root of an /dev/hda1 NTFS volume:
ntfscp /dev/hda1 /home/user/new_boot.ini boot.ini
Copy myfile to C:somepathmyfile:stream (assume that /dev/hda1 letter in windows is C):
ntfscp -N stream /dev/hda1 myfile /some/path
BUGS
There are no known problems with ntfscp. If you find a bug please send an email describing the problem to the development team:
linux-ntfs-dev@lists.sourceforge.net
AUTHORS
ntfscp was written by Yura Pakhuchiy, with contributions from Anton Altaparmakov.
DEDICATION
With love to Marina Sapego.
AVAILABILITY
ntfscp is part of the ntfsprogs package and is available from:
http://www.linux-ntfs.org/content/view/19/37
The manual pages are available online at:
http://man.linux-ntfs.org/
SEE ALSO ntfsprogs(8)ntfsprogs 1.13.1 November 2005 NTFSCP(8)