First, we divide the memory into blocks, which is the unit in which we read from and write into memory. In practice, the memory is usually sector-addressable. For simplicity, we make it ...

In computing, a file system (or filesystem) is used to control how data is stored and retrieved. Without a file system, information placed in a storage area would be one large body of data with no way ...

The ls command is probably one of the first commands that anyone using Unix learns, but it only shows a small portion of the information that is available with the stat command. The stat command pulls ...

I am currently writing a version of File Tree Walk for my systems programming class for the UNIX operating system. I was wondering if there was a verion of the stat function that takes an inode number ...

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 ...

Inodes are a fundamental element of any Linux web hosting platform. They are essentially the “building blocks” that enable your website to run smoothly and efficiently, but most people don’t even know ...