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chandanlinster

2007-04-21, 1:17 pm

why is the root inode numbered 2, rather than 1

elsiddik

2007-04-22, 1:20 am

On Apr 22, 4:08 am, chandanlinster <chandanlins...@gmail.com> wrote:
> why is the root inode numbered 2, rather than 1

coz inode 1 is linked to bad blocks.

cheers,
zaher el siddik
http://elsiddik.blogspot.com/