Il comando stat consente di visualizzare le proprietą dei file:
tester@linux:~> stat /etc/profile File: `/etc/profile' Size: 7930 Blocks: 16 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 303h/771d Inode: 40657 Links: 1 Access: (0644/-rw-r--r--) Uid: ( 0/ root) Gid: ( 0/ root) Access: 2006-01-06 16:45:43.000000000 +0100 Modify: 2005-11-21 14:54:35.000000000 +0100 Change: 2005-12-19 09:51:04.000000000 +0100
Il parametro --filesystem consente di visualizzare i dettagli delle proprietą del file system in cui si trova il file specificato:
tester@linux:~> stat /etc/profile --filesystem
File: "/etc/profile"
ID: 0 Namelen: 255 Type: reiserfs
Block size: 4096 Fundamental block size: 4096
Blocks: Total: 2622526 Free: 1809771 Available: 1809771
Inodes: Total: 0 Free: 0