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Inodes

An inode stores metadata about a file. Applications can read it with stat() or statx().

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Syntax

stat(2); statx(2)

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  • stat(2)
  • statx(2)
  • stat.st_dev
  • stat.st_ino
  • statx.stx_dev_major
  • statx.stx_dev_minor
  • statx.stx_ino
  • tmpfs(5)

Source: inode(7) - Linux manual page. Checked 2026-11-03.