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

Chapter 9. File System Administration

Terms you'll need to understand:

• File systems and types

• mkfs, mkfs_ufs, newfs, and fsck commands

• /etc/mnttab and /etc/vfstab files

• mount and umount commands

• mountall and umountall commands

• df, du, and quot commands

• Types of files (regular, directory, and special)

• Types of links (symbolic and hard)

• compress, gzip, and zip commands

• mt command

• ufsdump and ufsrestore commands

• tar, cpio, and find commands

Techniques you'll need to master:

• Creating (making) file systems

• Checking and repairing file systems

• Mounting and unmounting file systems

• Monitoring file system usage

• Backing up and restoring file systems, directories, and files

• Recovering the root or /usr file system

• Identifying different types of files and links

• Compressing ...