On Sun, 7 Jun 2020 20:51:54 -0400 Fred Smith <fredex@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 08, 2020 at 07:59:43AM +0800, Ed Greshko wrote: > > On 2020-06-08 07:45, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > > On 6/7/20 2:52 PM, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > >> On Sun, 2020-06-07 at 14:07 -0700, Samuel Sieb wrote: > > >>> An inode is the chunk of metadata in the filesystem that describes a > > >>> file. You could think of it simply as a directory entry, but it's more > > >>> complicated than that. > > >> > > >> Sorry to be That Guy, but an inode is definitely not a directory entry, > > >> it's something a directory entry points to. > > > > > > *I* know what an inode is but I was trying to give a non-technical user a simpler idea of it since he really doesn't need the details. I also pretty clearly said it wasn't really a directory entry. My first description was correct and then I gave a simpler concept that was good enough. > > > > I knew what you meant. :-) > > > > Sometimes I feel it is unfortunate that the term "directory" is used when a "folder" would seem better > > in some cases. > > they were called directories long before Apple (or was it MS?) decided > to "simplify" it by calling them folders. > But to list it, the command is "dir". Seems almost nobody is using the command line. GUI for everything. I like to see how will they solve the repetitive task. :-) BR, Bob _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
