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Re: slashes in filenames [was Re: Error while trying to install openssh-server on Buster]



On Fri, Jul 24, 2020 at 09:42:24AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote:
On 2020-07-24 at 09:22, tomas@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.


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