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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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vold — Volume Management Daemon to Manage CD-ROM and Diskette Devices

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/vold [-n][-t][-v][-f config-file][-l log-file][-d root-dir]
  [-L debug-level]

Description

The vold volume management daemon creates and maintains a file-system image rooted at root-dir that contains symbolic names for diskettes and CD-ROMs. The default root-dir is set to /vol if you specify no directory with the -d option.

vold reads the /etc/vold.conf configuration file on startup. If the configuration file is modified later, you must tell vold to reread the /etc/vold.conf file with the following command.

# kill -HUP
						vold-pid
					

To tell vold to clean up and exit, use the SIGTERM signal.

# kill -TERM
						vold-pid
					

where vold-pid is the process ID of vold.

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