VERITAS File SystemÖ 3.5 (HP OnlineJFS/JFS 3.5) Installation Guide

Chapter 1
VERITAS File System 3.5 (HP OnlineJFS/JFS 3.5) Installation
Installing From the Support Plus CD-ROM
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Using VxFS
After installing VxFS, you can create a VERITAS File System on a VERITAS Volume Manager™ (VxVM)
volume, or an HP LVM volume, using the mkfs command with the -F vxfs switchout option.
NOTE 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.
The VxFS 3.5 vxtunefs command is installed in the /sbin/fs/vxfs3.5/bin directory. This
directory is automatically added to /etc/PATH when VxFS 3.5 is installed. Make sure that you
invoke the VxFS 3.5 vxtunefs for tuning VxFS 3.5. If the JFS/OnLineJFS 3.3 vxtunefs
command in the /sbin directory executes on 3.5, an error is returned.
Before you can use this file system, you must mount it with the mount -F vxfs command. You can unmount
the file system later with the umount command. A file system can be automatically mounted at system boot
time if you add an entry for it in the /etc/fstab file.
The VERITAS-specific commands are described in the VxFS guides and online manual pages. Refer to the
Quick Start Reference appendix of the VERITAS File System Administrator’s Guide for examples of the most
common VxFS operating procedures.
NOTE The swinstall command installs VxFS manual pages in the /usr/share/man/fs/vxfs3.5
directory, and symbolic links to the VxFS manual pages in the /opt/VRTS/man directory. The
/usr/share/man/fs/vxfs3.5 directory is automatically added to /etc/MANPATH when VxFS
3.5 is installed. Make sure that one of these directories goes before /usr/share/man in your
MANPATH environment variable so that the latest version of the VxFS manual pages display.