I installed freeBSD in vmware just to play around with BSD. I was trying to install apache and my / partition ran out of inodes. There's still 30% free space on the 1.2gigs I allocated, but I'm out of ...

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 ...

Question, on a 2TB drive how much space is wasted by using normal amount of inodes instead of largefile or largefile4, I created my filesystems with normal but I only have files in the 100MB to 4GB ...

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 ...

You can use the stat command to view dates and times associated with Linux files, and the date command can do some handy conversions if you’d like to display the current time in the epoch format.

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 ...

Every now and then I come across a file that just doesn’t display properly in a file listing. In fact, it can be a little tricky to determine the name of a file that contains odd characters. You might ...