inode table location ??

varungupta · September 13, 2007, 2:30am

perderabo:

The location of the inode table in a file system depends on the particular file system being used. In general, most modern file systems scatter the inodes among the data blocks. This allows an inode to reside close to the data it describes and tends to reduce overall seek time. You don't say what type of check you want to perform. Most file systems include a version of fsck and this program should be able to verify the integrity of the inode table. You need to unmount the file system first and this usually requires single user mode.

If you want to find inode-to-filename mappings, "ls -li" is a tool that comes to mind. You can find all hard links to an inode with a command like:
find /mountpoint -inum 123456 -print
But be aware that it is legal for a file described by an inode to have zero hard links. (Such a file will disappear when the last program that has it open closes it.)

Hey,

Whats the mountpoint there ?? Is it the name of the directory ??

I got the another point that in ls -li, 'i' shows the inode no. of the file. But then could you please tell me what the fuser -uV Filename1 gives. (As i have shown above). As i compared the inode no. got from ls -li and fuser command, and the nos. where different.
One more thing fuser command is working on directory but not on the file, dont know why ??
fuser -uV /clocal/mqbrkrs/user/mqsiadm/sanjay
/clocal/mqbrkrs/user/mqsiadm/sanjay:
inode 569506c(t9154r0)
inode 577710c(mqsiadm)
inode 1044732c(mqsiadm)
inode 1155126c(mqsiadm)

In the above command "sanjay" is directory, in which there are no. of files which has been recently accessed by someone, whoes ids are listed in the braces () with inode no.
Now here is the catch :

This inode no. does't match with the inode no. of the files when i list using ls -li
How would I come to know the inode no. that i got from fuser command belongs to which file in that directory (as file name is not mentioned in the o/p of that command )

Please give me some solution to this problem as I am after this since last week.

Thanks !!