From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A0EE215ACFB for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2023 23:03:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C8941E08EC; Thu, 20 Apr 2023 23:03:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.hosts.co.uk (smtp.hosts.co.uk [85.233.160.19]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 8516FE08CE for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2023 23:02:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from host86-156-145-149.range86-156.btcentralplus.com ([86.156.145.149] helo=[192.168.1.65]) by smtp.hosts.co.uk with esmtpa (Exim) (envelope-from ) id 1ppdIo-000BBw-Ee for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 21 Apr 2023 00:02:58 +0100 Message-ID: <301f11f9-c840-e063-dbcd-fb7dcf366de1@youngman.org.uk> Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2023 00:02:57 +0100 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:102.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/102.10.0 Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Finally got a SSD drive to put my OS on Content-Language: en-GB To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <3a8a143d-38f0-b7ea-4aa1-10c0b3a2a1e0@gmail.com> <81fde7b8-cc55-fcae-79ea-4dd2a78eb8a0@gmail.com> <2703063.mvXUDI8C0e@wstn> <7ef36857-192e-6d2c-dc44-a2c4ba772205@gmail.com> <35474652-f973-75b2-b8e7-4d22915672ac@gmail.com> <9781e250-591d-d468-11f2-7e5c94ac7db3@gmail.com> <32e6eec8-8631-733d-d0dc-69f171bbe77e@gmail.com> From: Wol In-Reply-To: <32e6eec8-8631-733d-d0dc-69f171bbe77e@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 0d94d34c-7314-4912-b664-db80d401b530 X-Archives-Hash: 45da174d1b7ca6bc99d4625b7760a6a4 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