provides information about the
structure of disks, disk partitioning, and disk partition device files.
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.
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.
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.
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.