Summary

This concludes the discussion of local file systems. This chapter introduced you to the many options available for constructing file systems using the mkfs and newfs commands. Other Solaris utilities for managing, labeling, copying, and tuning file systems were also presented.

The process of creating a file system on a disk partition was described. Many file system creation parameters that affect performance were presented. This chapter also detailed all the parts of a file system so that, as you create file systems, you are familiar with terminology you’ll encounter.

The mount and umount commands were described. In this chapter, I explained how to display mount options currently in use on a particular file system. In addition, the chapter showed you how to determine what process or user is using a file system before you unmount it.

In addition to showing how to manually mount file systems, this chapter described the volume manager for automatically mounting file systems on CD-ROM and disk. All the volume manager commands and associated configuration files were presented and explained.

Finally, the system administrator must monitor all file systems regularly. Commands and utilities used monitor and manage file systems were described in detail.

Chapter 11 discusses disk devices in detail. In addition, SVM is presented in that chapter. You might want to review that chapter for a detailed description of the various device configurations that make up file systems. Chapter 21, “The Solaris Network Environment,” and Chapter 22, “The NFS Environment,” discuss how to share file systems with other hosts on the network.

In the next chapter, we’ll switch gears a little and describe all of the details behind a system process. As a system administrator, your primary responsibility is to manage all processes that run on the system.