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MORE FILE ATTRIBUTES

ls –l to display file attributes (properties) Listing of a specific directory Ownership and group ownership Different file permissions BASIC FILE ATTRIBUTES

ls –l provides attributes like Permissions Links Owner Group owner Size Date File name LISTING FILE ATTRIBUTES

The concept of file system The use of inode to store attributes Use ln to create a hard link Where to use hard links, its limitations Symbolic links The directory – read, write and execute permissions Now, in this class

The hard disk is split into distinct partitions, with a separate file system in each partition Every file system has a directory structure headed by root n partitions = n file systems = n separate root directories Root file system FILE SYSTEMS AND INODES

All attributes of a file except its name and contents are available in a table – inode (index node), accessed by the inode number File type File permissions Number of links The UID of the owner The GID of the group owner

File size in bytes Date and time of last modification Date and time of last access Date and time of last change of the inode An array of pointers that keep track of all disk blocks used by the file NOTE: neither the name of the file nor the inode number is stored in the inode

To know inode number of a file: ls -il tulec rw-r--r-- 1 kumar metal jan 31 11:15 tulec05 Where 9059 is the inode number No other file can have the same inode number in the same file system

The link count is displayed in the second column of the listing -rwxr-xr-- 2 kumar metal 163 jul 13 21:36 backup.sh -rwxr-xr-- 2 kumar metal 163 jul 13 21:36 restore.sh ls -li backup.sh restore.sh rwxr-xr-- 2 kumar metal163 jul 13 21:36 backup.sh rwxr-xr-- 2 kumar metal163 jul 13 21:36 restore.sh HARD LINKS

A file is linked with the ln command which takes two filenames as arguments (cp command) ln emp.lst employee ls -li emp.lst employee rwxr-xr-x 2 kumar metal 915 may 4 09:58 emp.lst rwxr-xr-x 2 kumar metal 915 may 4 09:58 employee You can increase the number of links,

ln employee emp.dat ; ls -l emp* rwxr-xr-x 3 kumar metal 915 may 4 09:58 emp.dat rwxr-xr-x 3 kumar metal 915 may 4 09:58 emp.lst rwxr-xr-x 3 kumar metal 915 may 4 09:58 employee

1.ln data/ foo.txt input_files 2.Links provide some protection against accidental deletion 3.Because of links, we don’t need to maintain two programs as two separate disk files if there is very little difference between them WHERE TO USE HARD LINKS

1.We cant have two linked filenames in two file systems. 2.We cant link a directory even within the same file system This can be solved by using symbolic links (soft links) LIMITATIONS OF HARD LINKS

ln -s note note.sym ls -li note note.sym rw-r--r-- 1 kumar group 80 feb 16 14:52 note 9952 lrwxrwxrwx 1 kumar group 4 feb16 15:07note.sym ->note l indicate symbolic link file category -> indicates note.sym contains the pathname for the filename note Size of symbolic link is only 4 bytes, it is the length of the pathname of note SYMBOLIC LINKS

A directory has its own permissions, owners and links The higher the number of files, the larger the directory size ls -l -d progs drwxr-xr-x 2 kumar metal 320 may 9 09:57 progs THE DIRECTORY

Read permission for a directory means that the list of filenames stored in that directory is accessible ls -ld progs drwxr-xr-x 2 kumar metal 128 jun 18 22:41 progs chmod -r progs ; ls progs progs: permission denied Read permission

We cant write to a directory file chmod 555 progs ; ls –ld progs dr-xr-xr-x 2 kumar metal 128 jun 18 22:41 progs cp emp.lst progs cp: cannot create progs/emp.lst: permission denied Write permission

The write permission for a directory determines whether we can create or remove files in it because these actions modify the directory Whether we can modify a file depends on whether the file itself has write permission. Changing a file doesn't modify its directory entry

chmod 666 progs ; ls –ld progs drw-rw-rw- 2 kumar metal 128 jun 18 22:41 progs cd progs permission denied to search and execute it Execute permission

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