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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The old Unix file system can get decreasing performance because of fragmentation. File system defragmenters improve the performance by laying out all blocks of a file in a sequential order on disk, ...

Sending a Tivoli event from a Unix script involves the following steps: <probe_argument> is any qualifier associated with the event, such as the disk, network interface, etc. to which the event ...

i am currently taking an OS course and have run across this problem.<BR><BR>Assume a Unix System V FS where each inode has 10 direct blocks , 1 indirect block and 1 double indirect block.<BR>Disk ...

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 ...