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Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2003 20:25:48 -0500
From: Stephen Hilton <nospam@hiltonbsd.com>
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On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 21:02:11 -0400
Gerald S Stoller <gs_stoller@juno.com> wrote:

> FreeBSD  4.3-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.3-RELEASE #0: Sat Apr 21 10:54:49 GMT 2001
>     jkh@narf.osd.bsdi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/GENERIC  i386
> 
>           I tried out the  -inum  option of the  find  command and find
> that it didn't work.  I got a valid  inode  number from 'ls -i' and fed
> that to 'find  dir  -inum inode#' and got no file names back.  If there
> is someone familiar with this command's code and can fix it, please
> inform me and do so.  I don't know where the error is, i.e., is all the
> code for  -inum  missing or just a small part of it?  I don't know what
> structure contains all the inodes in a partition and how to associate
> inodes with file path-names (but I'd like to know this, so if someone can
> send me data as to where this info is, I would appreciate it).
>         I may try to fix it if I can get that info on inodes that I
> mentioned, if no one else can do it.


This works on my 4.9-RC and a 4.8 system.

$ find /usr/home -inum 22050
/usr/home/findme.test
$

HTH,

Stephen Hilton
nospam@hiltonbsd.com