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Directory Entry

Volodymyr Chernetskyi edited this page Dec 27, 2019 · 1 revision

Directory Entry

Directories are lists of names assigned to inodes. A directory contains an entry for itself, its parent, and each of its children. The root directory is at inode 2.

Starting Byte Ending Byte Size In Bytes Field Description
0 3 4 Inode number (0 if unused)
4 5 2 Total size of this entry = 256
6 7 2 Name length < 248
8 255 248 Name characters
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