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Inodes

 
  • An inode table contains a list of all files in an ext2 or ext3 filesystem

  • An inode (index node) is an entry in the table, containing information about a file (the metadata), including:

    • file type, permissions, link count, UID, GID
    • the file's size and various time stamps
    • pointers to the file's data blocks on disk
    • other data about the file