Solaris™ 8 System Administrator Exam Cram™ 2 (Exams CX-310-011 and CX-310-012)

Chapter 8. Disk Administration

Terms you'll need to understand:

• Physical device name

• Logical device name (raw and block disk devices)

• Raw and block logical device names

• Instance name

• /etc/path_to_inst file

• devfsadm, df, dmesg, format, mount, prtconf, prtvtoc, and sysdef commands

• Hot-plugging device

• Disk label (volume table of contents)

• Partitions and the partition table

Techniques you'll need to master:

• Displaying physical, logical, and instance names

• Partitioning disks

• Displaying the partition table

• Using raw and block logical device names

• Managing hot-plugging devices

• Using the format command

The first part of this chapter describes the three naming conventions used to identify system devices. It then focuses on the device names associated with disks and ...