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Thanks. Very curious. Indeed if the file is in /tmp, the inode doesn't change. But if it's in my home directory, it does change (for me). Both file systems are

Thanks. Very curious. Indeed if the file is in /tmp, the inode doesn't change. But if it's in my home directory, it does change (for me). Both file systems are ext4, so there's something else at play.

rpra 6y ago
in /tmp you dont have write permissions (so cannot create a new file, and falls back to overwrite), in home directory you have.