(Category) (Category) SCO(Caldera) UnixWare 7/OpenUNIX 8 FAQ :
Media/Device Information, Filesystems, and Disks
What information do you need to know about Media/Devices, Filesystems, and Disks on UnixWare 7?

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Answers in this category:
(Answer) What's a partition?
(Answer) What's a slice?
(Answer) What's a filesystem?
(Answer) What's an inode?
(Answer) What is Host Bus Adapter (HBA)?
(Answer) Can a Host Bus Adapter (HBA) have more than one bus?
(Answer) What is the Logical Unit Number (lun) or 'lun' number ?
(Answer) If a computer has two SCSI cards how does UW7 decide which is c0 and which is c1?
(Answer) What are the disk names like c0b0t0d0s0 ?
(Answer) What about CDROM and tape devices like c0b0t0l0?
(Answer) What is the device name of the diskette drive?
(Answer) Why are there many references to floppy drivers? For example /dev/fd0 and /dev/dsk/fd03ht.
(Answer) How do I write files to a diskette and list them?
(Answer) How do I format a 1.44 MB floppy?
(Answer) How do I create a filesystem on a floppy?
(Answer) How do I mount a floppy and view the contents?
(Answer) How do I access the disc in my cd-rom drive?
(Answer) What might a guru type when mounting a disc?
(Answer) Can I burn a cdr in UnixWare 7.1.X?
(Answer) What is the tape drive called?
(Answer) What is a good tape drive to use with Uw7?
(Answer) What are some of the tape commands I want to know?
(Answer) What are the various filesystem types on Uw7?
(Answer) What's the maximum filesystem size?
(Answer) What's the maximum file size?
(Answer) What's the logical block size?
(Answer) Is there still that 64k inode limit by default?
(Answer) How do I mount the filesystem on a disk, disc, or diskette?
(Answer) Why would mounting fail?
(Answer) Why would unmounting fail?
(Answer) How do I list the disk geometry like Cylinders, Heads, Bytes/Sector?
(Answer) How do I list my partition and slice layout? Is there a divvy?
(Answer) How do I convert sectors to MB?
(Answer) How do I add a 2nd or 3rd disk drive to my system?
(Answer) How do I partition a hard drive?
(Answer) How do I create a slice in a partition?
(Answer) How do I create a filesystem in a slice?
(Answer) How do I use quotas on a vxfs filesystem in Uw7?
(Answer) How do I fsck the root filesystem and other filesystems?
(Answer) How do enable Large File Support (for file sizes up to 1TB)?
(Answer) Why aren't my new scsi devices recognized after I install them?
(Answer) Why isn't my Yamaha 4416S recognized after I install it?
(Answer) How do I institute ACL's on a Uw7 system?
(Answer) How do I superformat a diskette in Uw7?
(Answer) Why doesn't my tape drive work with cpio, tar, and ArcServe?
(Answer) How do I add additional swap space?
(Answer) Why all files on the mounted CD-ROM have ';1' at the end?

(Answer) How do I access the disc in my cd-rom drive?
(Answer) How do I make an exact duplicate of an audio cd?
(Answer) What are a good set of options to backup /home to cdr?
(Answer) Do the memfs filesystems, /tmp and /var/tmp, use 50MB of RAM?
(Answer) How do I convert the memfs filesystems to regular vxfs ones?

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