If you use a Unix like system is probably that you ask about the Hard link and Symbolic links and how and when are them necessary. In this article, I will try to solve both questions. For talk about ...

Sometimes in UNIX, strange file names can be created mistakenly. For example, you may find that a file name contains spaces, control characters or maybe symbols such as or * This can become ...

:synopsis: Class that provides creeation time information for a file on Unix platform on ext4 filesystem using application debugfs. .. moduleauthor:: František Brožka Class that provides creeation ...

It doesn’t take very much time working on a Unix system before your attention is drawn to the mysteries of the inode, especially these days with the concept of metadata getting so much public ...

A lot of information is available about individual files on a Unix system. For example, the ls -l command will display the permissions matrix and ls -i will display a file’s inode. But, if we want to ...

Metadata is data about data. That is to say that metadata contains information about a piece of data. For example, if I own a car then I have a set of information about the car but which is not part ...

The FastFile file system uses an inode array to organize the files on disk. Each inode consists of a user id (2 bytes), three time stamps (4 bytes each), protection bits (2 bytes), a reference count ...