(Category) (Category) SCO UnixWare 7/OpenUNIX 8/OpenServer 6 FAQ :
Media/Device Information, Filesystems, and Disks
What information do you need to know about Media/Devices, Filesystems, and Disks?

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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 the OS 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/OpenServer 6?
(Answer) What is the tape drive called?
(Answer) What is a good tape drive to use with Uw7/OSR6?
(Answer) What are some of the tape commands I want to know?
(Answer) What are the various filesystem types on Uw7/OSR6?
(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/OSR6?
(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/OSR6 system?
(Answer) How do I superformat a diskette in Uw7/OSR6?
(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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