Veritas File System command summary

Symbolic links to all VxFS command executables are installed in the /opt/VRTS/bin directory. Add this directory to the end of your PATH environment variable to access the commands.

Table: VxFS commands describes the VxFS-specific commands.

Table: VxFS commands

Command

Description

df

Reports the number of free disk blocks and inodes for a VxFS file system.

fcladm

Administers VxFS File Change Logs.

ff

Lists file names and inode information for a VxFS file system.

fiostat

Administers file I/O statistics

fsadm

Resizes or defragments a VxFS file system.

fsapadm

Administers VxFS allocation policies.

fscat

Cats a VxFS file system.

fscdsadm

Performs online CDS operations.

fscdsconv

Performs offline CDS migration tasks on VxFS file systems.

fscdstask

Performs various CDS operations.

fsck

Checks and repairs a VxFS file system.

Due to a behavioral issue with the Linux fsck wrapper, you must run the VxFS fsck command, /opt/VRTS/bin/fsck, when specifying any option with an equals sign (=) in it. For example:

# /opt/VRTS/bin/fsck -o zapvol=MyVolName /dev/rdsk/c0t0d1s1

fsckpt_restore

Restores file systems from VxFS Storage Checkpoints.

fsclustadm

Manages cluster-mounted VxFS file systems.

fsdb

Debugs VxFS file systems.

fsdedupadm

Administers data deduplication.

fsfreeze

Freezes VxFS file systems and executes a user command on the file systems.

fsmap

Displays VxFS file system extent information.

fsppadm

Administers VxFS placement policies.

fsppmk

Creates placement policies.

fstag

Creates, deletes, or lists file tags.

fstyp

Returns the type of file system on a specified disk partition.

fsvmap

Maps volumes of VxFS file systems to files.

fsvoladm

Administers VxFS volumes.

glmconfig

Configures Group Lock Managers (GLM).

glmdump

Reports stuck Group Lock Managers (GLM) locks in a cluster file system.

glmstat

Group Lock Managers (GLM) statistics gathering utility.

mkdstfs

SmartTier file system creation utility.

mkfs

Constructs a VxFS file system.

mount

Mounts a VxFS file system.

ncheck

Generates path names from inode numbers for a VxFS file system.

setext

Sets extent attributes on a file in a VxFS file system.

vxcompress

Compresses and uncompresses files.

vxdump

Incrementally dumps file systems.

vxedquota

Edits user quotas for a VxFS file system.

vxenablef

Enables specific VxFS features.

vxfilesnap

Makes a copy-on-write copy of a file in a VxFS file system.

vxfsconvert

Converts an unmounted file system to VxFS or upgrades a VxFS disk layout version.

vxfsstat

Displays file system statistics.

vxlsino

Looks up VxFS reverse path names.

vxquot

Displays file system ownership summaries for a VxFS file system.

vxquota

Displays user disk quotas and usage on a VxFS file system.

vxquotaoff vxquotaon

Turns quotas on and off for a VxFS file system.

vxrepquota

Summarizes quotas for a VxFS file system.

vxrestore

Restores a file system incrementally.

vxtunefs

Tunes a VxFS file system.

vxupgrade

Upgrades the disk layout of a mounted VxFS file system.