"Eduardo Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> My wish is that fstat had an option to show file name instead of inodes :)
>
> For those who pointed me using find(1) looking for inum from the
> output of fstat(1), thank you; it is a very heavy loading option (disk
> usage increases around 30% while doing this) but it seemed to be the
> interesting option (at least, the options that worded).

Note that the filesystem doesn't store any mapping from inode to
filename, just the other way around.  Therefore, if fstat supported
such a function, it would have to do pretty much the same exhaustive
search that you are doing with find.  
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