What does I-Node of netstat mean?

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Issue

What does "I-Node" of netstat mean?

# netstat -axnp  | head
Active UNIX domain sockets (servers and established)
Proto RefCnt Flags       Type       State         I-Node PID/Program name    Path
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     12278  3490/xfs            /tmp/.font-unix/fs7100
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     12862  3627/gdm-binary     /tmp/.gdm_socket
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     13761  4135/scim-panel-gtk /tmp/scim-panel-socket:0-kfujii
unix  2      [ ACC ]     STREAM     LISTENING     7974   2949/vmware-serverd /var/run/vmware/root/2949/server-fd

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux

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