Editing Solaris 10 System Administration Part I (section)

=== Creating new ufs file system ===

user views ufs differently than Solaris OS. user views file system as collection of files & directories, to Solaris OS the file system appears as a collection of control structures & data blocks that occupy space defined by a partition

Solaris OS stores data in a logical file hierarchy often consisting of several file systems, file hierarchy is referred to as Solaris directory hierarchy

The ufs file system must be created on disk before being used by Solaris OS

Solaris systems typically use multiple ufs file systems to store directories & files

Example:
* using mount -p command shows the root (/) & /var directories as ufs & / directory on c0t0d0s0 & /var directory on c0t0d0s5.

<pre># mount -p | grep ufs
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 - / ufs - no rw,intr,largefiles,logging,xattr,onerror=panic
/dev/dsk/c0t0d0s5 - /var ufs - no rw,intr,largefiles,logging,xattr,onerror=panic
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'''utilize the format utility to view partition tables:'''
<pre>Part      Tag    Flag     Cylinders         Size            Blocks
  0       root    wm    1719 - 11168       10.74GB    (9450/0/0)   22528800
  1       swap    wu       0 -  1718        1.95GB    (1719/0/0)    4098096
  2     backup    wm       0 - 65532       74.50GB    (65533/0/0) 156230672
  3 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
  4 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
  5        var    wm   11169 - 16323        5.86GB    (5155/0/0)   12289520
  6 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
  7 unassigned    wm       0                0         (0/0/0)             0
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