Uploaded December 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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What are inodes in Linux? How do they work? What really happens when you type 'ls -l' into the Linux command line?

0:00 Intro
1:47 Directories as filename-inode number pairs
2:30 How are inodes structured?
3:33 inspecting a real inode
3:42 what is a syscall?
4:57 practical inode-related Linux commands
5:24 common inode-related Linux problems and troubleshooting
6:30 how inodes are created in Linux (depends on filesystem)



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