H How to Label a Disk 346

H How to Examine a Disk Label 348

Recovering a Corrupted Disk Label 349

H How to Recover a Corrupted Disk Label 349

Adding a Third-Party Disk 352

Creating a format.dat Entry 353

H How to Create a format.dat Entry 353

Automatically Configuring SCSI Disk Drives 354

H How to Automatically Configure a SCSI Drive 355

Repairing a Defective Sector 357

H How to Identify a Defective Sector by Using Surface Analysis 357

H How to Repair a Defective Sector 359

Tips and Tricks for Managing Disks 360

Debugging format Sessions 360

Label Multiple Disks by Using the prtvtoc and fmthard

30. SPARC: Adding a Disk (Tasks) 363

SPARC: About System and Secondary Disks 363

SPARC: Adding a System or Secondary Disk Task Map 364

H SPARC: How to Connect a System Disk and Boot 365

H SPARC: How to Connect a Secondary Disk and Boot 365

H SPARC: How to Create Disk Slices and Label a Disk 367

H SPARC: How to Create File Systems 371

H SPARC: How to Install a Boot Block on a System Disk 372

31. IA: Adding a Disk (Tasks) 375

IA: About System and Secondary Disks 375

IA: Adding a System or Secondary Disk Task Map 376

IA: Guidelines for Creating an fdisk Partition 376

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 H IA: How to Connect a System Disk and Boot 377

H IA: How to Connect a Secondary Disk and Boot 378

H IA: How to Create a Solaris fdisk Partition 379

H IA: How to Create Disk Slices and Label a Disk 386

H IA: How to Create File Systems 388

H IA: How to Install a Boot Block on a System Disk 389

32. The format Utility (Reference) 391

Requirements or Restrictions for Using the format Utility 391

Recommendations for Preserving Information When Using format 392

Format Menu and Command Descriptions 392

The partition Menu 394

IA: The fdisk Menu 395

The analyze Menu 396

The defect Menu 398

Files Used by format (format.dat) 399

Structure of the format.dat File 400

Syntax of the format.dat File 400

Keywords in the format.dat File 400

Partition or Slice Tables (format.dat) 403

Specifing the Location of a format Data File 404

Rules for Input to format Commands 404

Inputting Numbers to format Commands 404

Specifying Block Numbers to format Commands 405

Specifying format Command Names 405

Specifying Disk Names to format Commands 406

Using format Help 406

Associated format Man Pages 406

33. Managing File Systems Topics 407

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What’s New in File Systems? 409

The /var/run File System 409

Mount Table Changes (/etc/mnttab) 410

Using the Universal Disk Format (UDF) File System 410

UDF Features and Benefits 411

Hardware and Software Requirements 411

H How to Connect a DVD-ROM Device 411

H How to Access Files on a DVD-ROM Device 412

H How to Display UDF File System Parameters 412

H How to Create a UDF File System 413

H How to Identify the UDF File System Type 413

H How to Check a UDF File System 413

H How to Mount a UDF File System 414

H How to Unmount a UDF File System 414

H How to Label a Device with a UDF File System and Volume Name 414

Overview of File Systems 415

Types of File Systems 416

Disk-Based File Systems 416

Network-Based File Systems 417

Virtual File Systems 417

File System Administration Commands 419

How the File System Commands Determine the File System Type 421

Manual Pages for Generic and Specific Commands 421

The Default Solaris File Systems 421

Swap Space 422

The UFS File System 423

Parts of a UFS File System 423

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 UFS Logging 424

Planning UFS File Systems 424

Mounting and Unmounting File Systems 425

The Mounted File System Table 427

The Virtual File System Table 427

The NFS Environment 428

AutoFS 429

The Cache File System (CacheFS) 429

Deciding How to Mount File Systems 430

Determining a File System’s Type 430

H How to Determine a File System’s Type 430

35. Creating File Systems (Tasks) 433

Creating a UFS File System 433

File System Parameters 434

H How to Create a UFS File System 435

Creating a Temporary File System (TMPFS) 436

H How to Create a TMPFS File System 437

Creating a Loopback File System (LOFS) 438

H How to Create a LOFS File System 438

36. Mounting and Unmounting File Systems (Tasks) 441

Mounting File Systems 441

Commands Used to Mount and Unmount File Systems 442

Commonly Used Mount Options 443

H How to Determine Which File Systems Are Mounted 445

Mounting File Systems (/etc/vfstab File) 446

The /etc/vfstab Field Descriptions 446

H How to Add an Entry to the /etc/vfstab File 447

H How to Mount a File System (/etc/vfstab File) 449

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Mounting File Systems (mount Command) 451

H How to Mount a UFS File System 451

H How to Remount a UFS File System Without Large Files 452

H How to Mount an NFS File System 454

H How to Mount a System V (S5FS) File System 454

H How to Mount a PCFS (DOS) File System From a Hard Disk 455

Unmounting File Systems 456

Prerequisites 457

Verifying an Unmounted File System 457

H How to Stop All Processes Accessing a File System 457

H How to Unmount a File System 458

H How to Unmount All File Systems (/etc/vfstab File) 459

37. The Cache File System (Tasks) 461

How CacheFS Works 462

Setting Up a Cached File System Task Map 463

Creating a Cache 464

H How to Create a Cache 464

Specifying a File System to Be Mounted in the Cache 465

H How to Specify a File System to Be Mounted in a Cache With mount 465

H How to Mount a File System in a Cache by Editing the /etc/vfstab File 468

H How to Mount a File System in a Cache With AutoFS 469

Maintaining a Cached File System Task Map 470

Maintaining the Cache 471

H How to Modify File Systems in a Cache 471

H How to Display Information About Cached File Systems 472

H How to Specify Consistency Checking on Demand 473

H How to Delete a Cached File System 473

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 H How to Check the Integrity of Cached File Systems 475

Managing Your Cache File Systems With cachefspack 476

H How to Pack Files in the Cache 476

Packing Lists 477

H How to Create a Packing List 477

H How to Pack Files in the Cache as Specified in a Packing List 478

H How to Specify Files in the Packing List to be Treated as Regular

H How to Pack Files From a Shared Directory 479

Unpacking Files 480

H How to Unpack Files or Packing Lists From the Cache 480

Displaying Packed Files Information 482

H How to Display Packed Files Information 482

Viewing Help on the cachefspack Command 483

cachefspack Errors 484

CacheFS Statistics 489

Prerequisites for Setting Up and Viewing the CacheFS Statistics 489

Setting Up CacheFS Statistics Task Map 490

CacheFS Logging 490

H How to Set Up the Logging Process 491

How to Locate the Log File 491

How to Stop the Logging Process 492

Viewing the Cache Size 492

H How to View the Working Set (Cache) Size 492

Viewing the Statistics 494

H How to View Cache Statistics 494

The Cache Structure and Behavior 495

Consistency Checking of Cached File Systems With the Back File System 496

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