摘自《Linux programming by example》(作者:Arnold Robbins)
A partition (physical or logical) that contains file data and metadata, information about files (as opposed to
the file contents, which is information inthe files). Such metadata include file ownership, permissions, size,and so on, as well as information for use by the operating system in locating file contents.
Inode:
Short for "index node," initially abbreviated "i-node" and now written "inode." A small block of information
describing everything about a file exceptthe file's name(s). The number of inodes, and thus the number ofunique files per filesystem, is set and made permanent when the filesystem is created. 'df -i' can tell you
how many inodes you have and how many are used.
Conceptually, each disk block contains either some number of inodes, or file data. The inode, in turn, contains
pointers to the blocks that contain the file's data.