Information on File Systems

The df command gives you capacity information on each mounted file system. The output of df and fsck is often misunderstood. This section goes into more detail about these two commands and describes their output so that you can better understand the information displayed. I begin with the fsck command. Remember, run fsck only on unmounted file systems, as shown in the following example. Type the following:

umount /home2 
fsck /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s6 

The system responds with this:

 ** /dev/rdsk/c0t0d0s0 ** Last Mounted on /home2 ** Phase 1 - Check Blocks and Sizes ** Phase 2 - Check Pathnames ** Phase 3 - Check Connectivity ** Phase 4 - Check Reference Counts ** Phase 5 - Check Cyl groups 5 files, 19 used, 95975 free ...

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