VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Installation Guide (September 2004)

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Conventions
The following table describes the typographic conventions used in this guide.
NOTE “Dynamic Disk Groups” were formerly known as “Disk Groups.” They are still sometimes referred to
as “Disk Groups” in VxVM documentation, CLI and menu displays.
Table 1 Typographic Conventions
Typeface Usage Examples
monospace Computer output, file contents,
files, directories, software
elements such as command
options, function names, and
parameters
Read tunables from the
/etc/vx/tunefstab file.
See the ls(1) manual page for more
information.
italic New terms, book titles,
emphasis, variables to be
replaced by a name or value
See the User’s Guide for details.
The variable ncsize determines the
value of...
monospace
(bold)
User input; the “#” symbol
indicates a command prompt
# mount vxfs /h/filesys
monospace
(bold and
italic)
Variables to be replaced by a
name or value in user input
# mount -F fstype
mount_point
Symbol Usage Examples
% C shell prompt
$ Bourne/Korn/Bash shell
prompt
# Superuser prompt (all shells)
\ Continued input on the
following line
# mount -F vxfs /h/filesys
[] In a command synopsis,
brackets indicates an optional
argument
ls [ -a ]
| In a command synopsis, a
vertical bar separates mutually
exclusive arguments
mount [suid | nosuid ]