Information Technology Reference
In-Depth Information
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Disk and File System
Administration
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Terms You Need to Understand
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Physical device name
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Logical device name (raw and block)
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Instance name
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/etc/path_to_inst
file
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Disk administration commands
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Disk label (volume table of contents or VTOC)
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Partitions and the partition table
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File system administration commands
Concepts You Need to Master
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Displaying physical, logical, and instance names
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Partitioning disks
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Displaying the partition table
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Using raw and block logical device names
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Using the
format
command
