HP-UX 11i System Administration Handbook and Toolkit, Second Edition

File System Layout

Before I begin describing the file system layout, you need to know that you do not necessarily have a single file system. Your system administrator may have set up a variety of file system types on your system. As a beginning user, you don't care too much about the different types of file systems; however, before proceeding to the file system layout, let me briefly cover some of the different file system types. Your system administrator cares a lot about the different file system types because the commands that he or she issues allow them to specify an option such as "-F" followed by the file system type. One good place to start when looking for the different file system types supported by your UNIX variant is the manual page ...