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Managing filesystem types
The relationship between the filesystem and the storage device
Formatting the storage device
Partitions on the storage device
Size limitations on a filesystem
Data integrity and caching disk controllers
Avoiding filesystem damage
Administering filesystems on caching disk devices
Do you suspect filesystem damage?
The s5 filesystem type
The s5 boot block
The s5 superblock
s5 inodes
What does an s5 inode contain?
s5 storage blocks
s5 free blocks
The ufs filesystem type
The ufs cylinder group map
The ufs boot block
The ufs superblock
ufs inodes
What does a ufs inode contain?
ufs storage blocks
ufs free blocks
Quotas on the ufs filesystem
Using quotas
What effect do quotas have on the user?
Time and space optimization
The sfs filesystem type
The sfs inodes
The vxfs filesystem type
Fast filesystem recovery for vxfs
Extent-based allocation on a vxfs filesystem
Enhanced data integrity on a vxfs filesystem
vxfs disk space allocation
vxfs disk layout
The vxfs Version 1 disk layout
The vxfs version 2 disk layout
The vxfs version 3 disk layout
The vxfs version 4 disk layout
The bfs filesystem type
The bfs superblock
bfs inodes
bfs storage blocks
Managing bfs data blocks
Compaction
The memfs filesystem type
The dosfs filesystem type
The boot sector
The file allocation table
The root directory
The files area
Administering filesystems
The generic administrative commands
Invoking the administrative commands
The vfstab filesystem table
What does the vfstab filesystem table do?
Commands for sfs filesystems
Listing installed filesystem types
Identifying the type of an unmounted filesystem
Choosing a logical block size
What to consider when choosing a logical block size
Creating a filesystem with mkfs
Using mkfs to create an s5 filesystem
Using mkfs to create a ufs filesystem
Using mkfs to create an sfs filesystem
Using mkfs to create a vxfs filesystem
Using mkfs to create a bfs filesystem
Defining a new boot filesystem on a bootable disk
Moving and copying filesystems
Step 1: copying the source filesystem
Copying a filesystem with cpio
Copying a filesystem with volcopy
Steps 2 and 3: Removing the source filesystem and editing vfstab
Mounting and unmounting filesystems
Examples of mounting filesystems
Mounting filesystems from a diskette
Unmounting a filesystem
Choosing a mount mode
The mincache=closesync mode
The blkclear mode
Quick reference guide to managing filesystem types