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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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fsirand — Install Random Inode Generation Numbers

Synopsis

/usr/lib/fs/ufs/fsirand [-p] special
					

Description

To help increase the security of file systems exported by NFS, use the fsirand command to install random inode generation numbers on all the inodes on device special and install a file system ID in the superblock.

Use fsirand only on an unmounted file system that has been checked with fsck(1M) The only exception is that you can use this command on the root file system in single-user mode if you immediately reboot the system afterwards.

Options

-p Print the generation numbers for all the inodes, but do not change the generation numbers.

Examples

The following example shows part of the output generated by using the -p option to print generation ...

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