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Originally Posted by Banana
When you delete a file, only the pointer(header? address? what is the correct term?)
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It depends on the file system, actually. They use different terms at times. One common one on Unix-esque systems is "inode", for "indexed node". Another is just "directory entry".
HFS+ calls it a "catalog node ID", ("CNID"), or specifically just a "file ID" or "folder ID".