Veritas File System 5.0 AdministratorÆs Guide, HP-UX 11i v3, First Edition, May 2008

that is running Volume Manager and VxFS. The client runs on any platform that
supports the Java Runtime Environment.
You can perform the following administrative functions on local or remote systems
using the GUI:
■ Create a file system on a volume
■ Create a file system on a volume set
■ Remove a file system from the file system table
■ Mount and unmounting a file system
■ Defragment a file system
■ Monitor file system capacity
■ Create a snapshot copy of a file system
■ Check a file system
■ View file system properties
■ Maintain the File Change Log
■ Maintain Storage Checkpoints
■ Use multi-volume file systems
■ Set intent log options
■ Unmount a file system from a cluster node
■ Remove resource information for a cluster file system
See the VEA online help.
Online system administration
VxFS provides command line interface (CLI) operations that are described
throughout this guide and in manual pages.
VxFS allows you to run a number of administration tasks while the file system is
online. Two of the more important tasks include:
■ Defragmentation
■ File system resizing
About defragmentation
Free resources are initially aligned and allocated to files in an order that provides
optimal performance. On an active file system, the original order of free resources
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