Showing posts with label filesystem. Show all posts
Showing posts with label filesystem. Show all posts

Thursday, January 24, 2013

Filesystem commands in AIX






lsfs
Lists all filesystems in the
/etc/filesystems entry






lsfs -a
To list all filesystems (default)






lsfs -q
List all filesystems with
detailed info (shows size of FS and LV in it. so we can check whether size
of LV=size os FS)






lsfs -l
Specify the output in list format






lsfs -c
Specify the output in column format


Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Unix filesystems explained


A filesystem is a logical collection of files on a partition or disk. A
partition is a container for information and can span an entire hard
drive if desired.
Everything in Unix is considered to be a file, including physical
devices such as DVD-ROMs, USB devices, floppy drives, and so forth.


Unix uses a hierarchical file system structure, much like an
upside-down tree, with root (/) at