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What are inodes?

Tanksy

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My host's TOS say they have a limit of 300k inodes. What are they? How many of them would a normal wordpress installation use?
 
In a Unix-style file system, the inode is a data structure used to represent a filesystem object, which can be one of various things including a file or a directory. Each inode stores the attributes and disk block location(s) of the filesystem object's data.
 
As we all now know that Inode is a data structure that contains information of a file. Since data structures occupy storage then an obvious question arises about when the Inodes are created in a system? Well, space for Inodes is allocated when the operating system or a new file system is installed and when it does its initial structuring. So this way we can see that in a file system, maximum number of Inodes and hence maximum number of files are set.
 
An inode is a record in a disk table, which contains information about a file or folder such as its size, owner, device node, socket, pipe, etc., except data content and file name. The number of inodes on your account equals the number of files and folders you have on it.

SiteGround customers may see the number of inodes they are using from their account’s cPanel -> Stats -> Inodes Usage (situated on the left side on the cPanel home page). You may need to click on the Expand Stats link in order for the Inode usage graph to be displayed.
 
In a Unix-style file system, the inode is a data structure used to represent a filesystem object, which can be one of various things including a file or a directory. Each inode stores the attributes and disk block location(s) of the filesystem object's data.
 
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