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From: Wol <antlists@youngman.org.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2023 00:02:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <301f11f9-c840-e063-dbcd-fb7dcf366de1@youngman.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <32e6eec8-8631-733d-d0dc-69f171bbe77e@gmail.com>

On 20/04/2023 05:23, Dale wrote:
> Some 1,100 directories, not sure if directories use inodes or not.

"Everything is a file".

A directory is just a data file with a certain structure that maps names 
to inodes.

It might still be there somewhere - I can't imagine it's been deleted, 
just forgotten - but I believe some editors (emacs probably) would let 
you open that file, so you could rename files by editing the line that 
defined them, you could unlink a file by deleting the line, etc etc.

Obviously a very dangerous mode, but Unix was always happy about handing 
out powerful footguns willy nilly.

Cheers,
Wol


  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-04-20 23:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 67+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-04-15 22:47 [gentoo-user] Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on Dale
2023-04-15 23:24 ` Mark Knecht
2023-04-15 23:44   ` thelma
2023-04-16  1:47 ` William Kenworthy
2023-04-16  7:18   ` Peter Humphrey
2023-04-16  8:43     ` William Kenworthy
2023-04-16 15:08       ` Mark Knecht
2023-04-16 15:29         ` Dale
2023-04-16 16:10           ` Mark Knecht
2023-04-16 16:54             ` Dale
2023-04-16 18:14               ` Mark Knecht
2023-04-16 18:53                 ` Dale
2023-04-16 19:30                   ` Mark Knecht
2023-04-16 22:26                     ` Dale
2023-04-16 23:16                       ` Frank Steinmetzger
2023-04-17  1:14                         ` Dale
2023-04-17  9:40                           ` Wols Lists
2023-04-17 17:45                             ` Mark Knecht
2023-04-18  0:35                               ` Dale
2023-04-18  8:03                               ` Frank Steinmetzger
2023-10-07  7:22                         ` Dale
2023-04-16 17:46         ` Jorge Almeida
2023-04-16 18:07         ` Frank Steinmetzger
2023-04-16 20:22           ` Mark Knecht
2023-04-16 22:17             ` Frank Steinmetzger
2023-04-17  0:34               ` Mark Knecht
2023-04-18 14:52 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2023-04-18 15:05   ` Dale
2023-04-18 15:36     ` Nikos Chantziaras
2023-04-18 20:01       ` Dale
2023-04-18 20:53         ` Wol
2023-04-18 22:13           ` Frank Steinmetzger
2023-04-18 23:08             ` Wols Lists
2023-04-19  1:15               ` Dale
2023-04-18 20:57         ` Mark Knecht
2023-04-18 21:15           ` Dale
2023-04-18 21:25             ` Mark Knecht
2023-04-19  1:36               ` Dale
2023-04-18 22:18     ` Frank Steinmetzger
2023-04-18 22:41       ` Frank Steinmetzger
2023-04-19  1:45       ` Dale
2023-04-19  8:00         ` Nikos Chantziaras
2023-04-19  9:42           ` Dale
2023-04-19 10:34           ` Peter Humphrey
2023-04-19 17:14             ` Mark Knecht
2023-04-19 17:59             ` Dale
2023-04-19 18:13               ` Mark Knecht
2023-04-19 19:26                 ` Dale
2023-04-19 19:38                   ` Nikos Chantziaras
2023-04-19 20:00                     ` Mark Knecht
2023-04-19 22:13                       ` Frank Steinmetzger
2023-04-19 23:32                         ` Dale
2023-04-20  1:09                           ` Mark Knecht
2023-04-20  4:23                             ` Dale
2023-04-20  4:41                               ` eric
2023-04-20  9:48                                 ` Dale
2023-04-20 23:02                               ` Wol [this message]
2023-04-20  8:55                             ` Frank Steinmetzger
2023-04-20  8:52                           ` Frank Steinmetzger
2023-04-20  9:29                             ` Dale
2023-04-20 10:08                               ` Peter Humphrey
2023-04-20 10:59                                 ` Dale
2023-04-20 13:23                                   ` Nikos Chantziaras
2023-04-20 12:23                               ` Frank Steinmetzger
2023-04-20  9:46               ` Peter Humphrey
2023-04-20  9:49                 ` Dale
2023-04-18 17:52   ` Mark Knecht

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