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Data structure in a Unix file system

An inode is a data structure in a Unix-style file system that describes a file-system object such as a file or a directory. Each inode stores the attributes and disk block locations of the object's data. File-system object attributes may include metadata, as well as owner and permission data. Wikipedia →

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Noun A data structure representing an object such as a file or a directory in a Unix (or similar) file system.

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