On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 09:42:24AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
On 2020-07-24 at 09:22, to...@tuxteam.de wrote:
On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 07:54:27AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 07:49:26AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
Sounds like a case where directly editing the underlying device,
to modify inode-or-equivalent contents such that the slash is no
longer
^^^^^
Nitpick: the directory entry is the one carrying the name.
I had the impression that even a directory is stored in/as something
that is at least analogous to an inode. Is there a different term that's
more appropriate for the on-disk structure which holds a directory, vs.
'inode' for the one that holds a file?
In traditional unix filesystems there are inodes that contain
directory entries, and directory entries consist of a reference to a
data inode, the filename, the type of the thing the entry is pointing
to, and some other metadata. To change a filename you'd edit the
appropriate directory entry.
