• physical location on storage device of file data
• file type (regular file, directory, ...), file size (bytes/blocks)
• ownership, access permissions, timestamps (create/access/update)

Note: an inode does not contain the name of the file

Access to a file by name requires a directory

• where a directory is effectively a list of (name,inode) pairs

Note: You can use the ls -i command to see the inode index for each file
Note: very small files can potentially be stored in an inode (inlining)