Tag: Permission Symbols

What are Inodes in Linux?

Posted on November 20, 2020 by Dean Conally

Category: Tutorials | Tags: Admin, Administration, Command-line, Connections, cPanel, Disk Usage, Execute, File Permissions, Grep, Group, Inode, Linux, Mask, Memory, Open Files, Permission Classes, Permission Sets, Permission Symbols, Permissions, Processes, Read, Symbolic Headings, Symbolic Permissions, Umask, User, User File Creation Mode, Usergroup, VPS, WHM, World, Write

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As you are probably already aware, everything is considered to be a file in Linux. That includes hardware devices, processes, directories, regular files, sockets, links, and so on. Generally, the file system is divided into data blocks and inodes. With that being said, you can think about inodes as a basis of the Linux file system. To explain it more clearly, an Inode is a data structure that stores metadata about every single file on your computer system.

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What Is Umask and How to Use it Effectively

Posted on April 24, 2020 by Nicholas Conner | Updated: February 26, 2021

Category: Tutorials | Tags: Access Level, Execute, File Permissions, Group, Mask, Numeric Headings, Octal, Octal Number, Octal Value, Other, Permission Classes, Permission Sets, Permission Symbols, Permissions, Read, Symbolic Headings, Symbolic Permissions, Umask, User, User File Creation Mode, Usergroup, World, Write

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What is Umask?

Umask, or the user file-creation mode, is a Linux command that is used to assign the default file permission sets for newly created folders and files. The term mask references the grouping of the permission bits, each of which defines how its corresponding permission is set for newly created files. The bits in the mask may be changed by invoking the umask command.

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