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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
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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prtvtoc — Report Information About Disk Geometry and Partitioning

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/prtvtoc [-fhs][-t vfstab][-m mnttab] device
					

Description

Use the prtvtoc command to view the contents of the VTOC (volume table of contents). Only superuser can use this command.

The device name can be the file name of a raw device in the form of /dev/rdsk/c?t?d?s2 or can be the file name of a block device in the form of /dev/dsk/c?t?d?s2.

Warning

The mount command does not check the "not mountable" bit.

Options

-f Report on the disk free space, including the starting block address of the free space, number of blocks, and unused partitions.
-h Omit the headers from the normal output.
-s Omit all headers but the column header from the normal output.
-t vfstab ...
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