Re: Question about inodes
Glynn Clements <[email protected]>
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Lars wrote: > I've always thought at indes as something uniq on every file on the > same file system. Today, I saw something weird that tickled my theory > about this. I found two folders, on the same filesystem that had the > same indoe. It is inode 1. Here is some info.. > > > [root@test ~]# ls -lid /sys > 1 drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 0 Jul 25 13:06 /sys > > [root@test ~]# ls -lid /dev/pts > 1 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 0 Jul 25 13:06 /dev/pts Inode numbers are only unique within a filesystem. /sys and /dev/pts are separate filesystems. > [root@test ~]# df > Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on > /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 > 36756152 2138060 32720828 7% / > /dev/hda1 101086 11818 84049 13% /boot > tmpfs 253652 0 253652 0% /dev/shm "df" only lists filesystems which correspond to block devices. Use "mount" or "cat /proc/mounts" for a complete list. > As you see, both /sys and /dev/pts have the same inode. This is not an > issue, but a question. > I can see that the device is not the same on these two files/folders, > but they are on the same fs.. No they aren't. /proc, /proc/bus/usb, /sys, /dev, /dev/pts, and /dev/shm are usually separate filesystems (/dev might not be if you're using static device files rather than devfs). -- Glynn Clements <[email protected]> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html