Linux Basic Concepts-----File types

Normal file: Non-directory or other type of file (-)

Directory file (d): Linux directory is also a file, but the directory file contains the name of other files or directories and the corresponding Indoe number

Indoe Wikipedia:Inoderefers to the many "classesUNIX File System"One of theData. Each inode holds one of the file systemFile System Objects(includingFile,Directory,Device files,Socket,Pipeline, and so on), but does not include data content or file names.

Baidu Encyclopedia:

Inode number

Used to identify file types, and schema information for stat C functions

Number of links to files

The UID of the owner

Owner's group ID (GID)

Size of File

Actual number of disk blocks used by the file

Time of last modification

Time of last visit

The most important thing is the block location where the file is located, which is used to determine the location of the file on the hard disk.

Special files

Block device file (b)

Character file (c)

Soft link file (l)

Named pipe file (p)

Socket file (s)

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File: Determine the type of ordinary file

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