Managing Systems and Workgroups: A Guide for HP-UX System Administrators

Administering a System: Managing Disks and Files

Managing File Systems

Chapter 6602

Managing File Systems

This section presents information for managing ﬁle systems on a single

system. The following topics are discussed:

• “Creating a File System” on page 603

• “Mounting File Systems” on page 605

• “Unmounting File Systems” on page 609

• “Extending the Size of a File System Within a Logical Volume” on

page 611

• “Copying a File System Across Devices” on page 613

• “Replacing an Existing File System with a Smaller One” on page 619

• “Managing Disk Space Usage with Quotas” on page 620

• “Managing Mirrored File Systems” on page 627

• “Defragmenting a JFS File System” on page 643

• “Converting Existing File Systems to JFS” on page 644

• “Resizing a JFS File System” on page 652

• “Managing FTP” on page 657

Additional information is available for managing distributed ﬁle systems

elsewhere; see:

• “Distributing Applications and Data” on page 61

• “Sharing Files and Applications via NFS and ftp” on page 394

• “Examples and Cookbook Procedures” on page 654

For performance strategies helpful in making efﬁcient use of ﬁle systems,

see:

• “Managing System Performance” on page 726

For advice about ﬁle system security, see:

• “Managing Access to Files and Directories” on page 753