VERITAS Volume Manager 3.5 Migration Guide (September 2004)

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Conventions
The following table describes the typographic conventions used in this guide.
Table 1
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 -F 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 ]