Outline

Introduction	26
Device Drivers	26
Physical Device Name	27
Device Autoconfiguration	33
USB Devices	35
Instance Names	37
Major and Minor Device Numbers	40
Logical Device Name	42
Block and Raw Devices	46
A File System Defined	47
Defining a Disk's Geometry	48
Disk Controllers	49
Defect List	49
Disk Labels	49
Partition Tables	51
Solaris File System Types	51
Disk-Based File Systems	51
Network-Based File Systems	52
Virtual File Systems	52
Disk Slices	54
Displaying Disk Configuration Information	56
Using the format Utility to Create Slices	58
The Free Hog Slice	66
Using the format Utility to Modify Partitions	66
Using the Solaris Management Console Disks Tool	68
Recovering Disk Partition Information	74
Logical Volumes	75
Parts of a UFS	75
The Root (/) File System	78
Soft (Symbolic) Links	83
Hard Links	85
Removing a Link	87
Components of the UFS	87
The Boot Block	88
The Superblock	88
Cylinder Groups	89
The inode	89
The Storage Block	90
Free Blocks	90
Creating a UFS	90
Understanding Custom File System Parameters	92
Logical Block Size	93
Fragment Size	93
Minimum Free Space	94
Optimization Type	95
Number of inodes and Bytes per inode	95
The mkfs Command	95
The fstyp Command	98
File System Operations	99
Synchronizing a File System	99
Repairing File Systems	100
Determining Whether a File System Needs Checking	102
Running fsck Manually	102
The labelit Command	104
The volcopy Command	104
Tuning File Systems	106
Mounting File Systems	108
Mounting a File System with Large Files	113
Mounting a File System with UFS Logging Enabled	114
Unmounting a File System	114
The fuser Command	115
/etc/mnttab	116
Creating an Entry in the /etc/vfstab File to Mount File Systems	118
Volume Management	120
Using Volume Management	128
Troubleshooting Volume Manager	129
Displaying a File System's Disk Space Usage	131
Displaying Directory Size Information	135
Information on File Systems	136
Controlling User Disk Space Usage	138
The quot Command	139
Summary	141