Re: What is backup_vg-backup? Can it be so big?

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On Mon, 08 Jun 2020 10:37:38 +0100
Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallaghan@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Mon, 2020-06-08 at 09:39 +0200, Bob Marcan wrote:
> > 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.  
> 
> I cut my teeth with 'ls' and never use 'dir', but that's by the way.
> 
> poc

I was talking about Windows, not Unix. :-)
BR, Bob
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