I’m going to ask you a question. What do you see when you pass the ls -l command? A list of files with a bunch of details like permission, number of files, file owner, group owner, size, date & time ...

A filesystem is a fundamental component of any operating system. It is the system that manages how data is stored and retrieved on a storage device. In the world of Linux, filesystems play a crucial ...

If you have been using Linux long enough, you will have seen the term “inodes”. It is something that will show up occasionally, but doesn’t affect what you are doing. Here we will explain what is ...

This repo exists to document a hands-on exploration of the Linux filesystem, with a focus on inode behavior. Lab ran on an Ubuntu VM via VMWare. 'file1' and 'file2' are created and assigned inode ...

It started with a phone call. Could we build a Linux box that would mount and read a DEC drive and make the data available to NT workstations via Samba? The answer was “I'll have to get back to you.” ...

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 ...

What is Soft Link And Hard Link In Linux? A symbolic or soft link is an actual link to the original file, whereas a hard link is a mirror copy of the original file. If you delete the original file, ...