Administering filesystems

Administering filesystems

One of the most important responsibilities of a system administrator is creating and maintaining filesystems. Filesystem maintenance includes keeping the filesystems clean, repairing damaged filesystems, and ensuring adequate space for all users. Filesystem administration includes:

Creating filesystems on the primary hard disk (at installation time) -- see ``The installation and upgrade procedure''
Adding filesystems to the primary or secondary hard disk after installation -- see ``Partitioning a hard disk using fdisk'' and ``Dividing a disk partition into divisions using divvy''
Allowing filesystems to be mounted across the network -- see ``Exporting and unexporting filesystems''
Mounting and unmounting filesystems
Checking and repairing filesystems
Adding and removing mount configuration
Maintaining free space in filesystems
Maintaining filesystem efficiency

NOTE: In addition to the networking components included with your SCO OpenServer distribution, SCO offers two products that provide distributed filesystem services: SCO Advanced File and Print Server and Samba File and Print Server for SCO OpenServer. These products are included on the Optional Services CD-ROM. See the Optional Services README files for more information.