IRIX Admin: Disks and Filesystems Document Number 007-2825-001 Table Of Contents This guide contains the following chapters/sections. ALL FILES INCLUDED HERE ARE COMPRESSED PostScript FILES ------------------------------------------------------------- * Title Page, (2 pages) * Table of Contents, (8 pages) * List of Examples, (2 pages) * List of Figures, (2 pages) * List of Tables, (2 pages) * Preface, (2 pages) * About This Guide, (6 pages) 1. Chapter 1 "Disk Concepts," (18 pages) provides information about the structure of disks, disk partitioning, and disk partition device files. 2. Chapter 2, "Performing Disk Administration Procedures," (34 pages) describes disk administration tasks such as listing disks, initializing disks, modifying volume headers, repartitioning disks, creating device files, and adding new disks to systems. 3. Chapter 3, "Filesystem Concepts," (22 pages) provides information about the IRIX filesystem layout, general filesystem concepts, details of the EFS and XFS filesystem types, and discussions of creating, mounting, checking, and growing filesystems. 4. Chapter 4, "Creating and Growing Filesystems," (24 pages) describes filesystem administration procedures such as making filesystems, mounting them, growing them, and converting from EFS to XFS. 5. Chapter 5, "Maintaining Filesystems," (20 pages) describes filesystem administration procedures that need to be performed routinely or on an as-needed basis, such as checking filesystems and managing disk usage when the amount of free disk space is low. 6. Chapter 6, "Logical Volume Concepts," (22 pages) describes the general concepts of logical volumes and the specifics of lv and XLV logical volumes. 7. Chapter 7, "Creating and Administering XLV Logical Volumes," (26 pages) provides administration procedures for creating and administering XLV logical volumes and converting lv logical volumes to XLV. 8. Chapter 8, "Creating and Administering lv Logical Volumes," (8 pages) Creating and Administering lv Logical Volumes, provides administration procedures for creating and administering lv logical volumes. 9. Chapter 8, "System Administration for Guaranteed-Rate I/O," (24 pages) provides information about guaranteed-rate I/O and the administration procedures required to support its use by applications. * Appendix A, "Repairing EFS Filesystem Problems With fsck," (18 pages) * Index, (11 pages) * Tech Pubs Wants To Hear From You, (1 page) ----------------------------------------------------------------------------