Question

Every file is associated with a table which contains all possible information about a file, that table is called as _________

(a) info table

(b) file table

(c) inode

(d) ps table

I got this question in a national level competition.

The doubt is from Advanced File Handling Commands topic in section Customizing the Environment & More File Attributes of Unix

Answer 1

The correct answer is (c) inode

Best explanation: Every file is associated with a table that contains all the necessary possible information we need to know about a file. This table is called the inode ( shorthand from index node) and this table is accessible using an inode number.