Hello!

Is there a smart way of getting all the filenames from inode number with multiple links? I know I can do find over entire disk to check for the inode number, but is there a faster way of doing it?

Thanks and take care, M.

The inode of a file only stores the number of links to it, not the actual locations of the links.
This is only stored in the blocks that describe directories: the content of a directory is, simply said, not much more than a list of inodes and names of all files and subdirectories.
This is the only link between a filename and it's inode that is actually stored on disk.

Hence, you'll need to scan all directories' contents (by reading the blocks used to store directories) and filter out the entries that have a certain inode number...which is exactly what "find -inum" does for you!
It should be quite fast unless you have thousands of small directories.

So, I guess the answer to your question is probably "no".

Thanks for the reply, timmeke, just wanted to be sure.

You're welcome, Mikka.