March 2003
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
10h 54m
English
This section provides a brief review of the basic disk management commands provided with the Solaris 8 operating system. These commands are covered in more detail in Chapter 9, “File System Administration.”
Before you create a file system on a disk, the disk must be formatted by using the format command. Next, you must define the volume table of contents (VTOC) using the fmthard or format command. The VTOC includes the partition table that determines the number and size of partitions or disk slices. The prtvtoc command can be used to display ...
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