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Chapter 36

Managing File Systems Topics

This topic map lists the chapters that provide information on managing file systems.

Chapter 37, Managing File Systems (Overview)

Provides a high-level overview of file system topics, including descriptions of file system types, commonly used administration commands, and the mounting and unmounting of file systems. Also includes the procedure for determining a file system's type.

Chapter 38, Creating File Systems (Tasks)

Provides step-by-step instructions for creating a UFS file system, a temporary file system (TMPFS), and a loopback file system (LOFS).

Chapter 39, Mounting and Unmounting File Systems (Tasks)

Provides step-by-step instructions for determining which file systems are mounted, how to mount files listed in the /etc/vfstab file, and how to mount UFS, NFS, and PCFS (DOS) file systems.

Chapter 40, Using The CacheFS File System (Tasks)

Provides overview information and step-by-step instructions for using the CacheFS file system.

Chapter 41, Configuring Additional Swap Space (Tasks)

Provides step-by-step instructions for monitoring swap resources, creating swap files and making them available, and removing unneeded swap space.

Chapter 42, Checking UFS File System Consistency (Tasks)

Provides information on how the file system state is recorded, what fsck program checks, how to modify automatic boot checking, and how to use the fsck program.

Chapter 43, UFS File System (Reference)

Provides reference information for file systems, including default directories for the root (/) and /usr file systems, default directories that are contained in the /kernel directory, and specifics for the mkfs and newfs commands.

 
 
 
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