System Administration Guide: Basic Administration

What You Can Do With Volume Management

Essentially, volume management enables you to access removable media just as manual mounting does, but more easily and without the need for superuser access. To make removable media easier to work with, you can mount removable media in easy-to-remember locations.

Table 17–2 How to Access Data on Removable Media Managed by Volume Manager


Access	Insert	Find the Files Here
Files on the first diskette	The diskette and enter `volcheck`	`/floppy`
Files on the first removable hard disk	The removable hard disk and enter `volcheck`	`/rmdisk/jaz0` or `/rmdisk/zip0`
Files on the first CD	The CD and wait for a few seconds	`/cdrom/volume-name`
Files on the first DVD	The DVD and wait for a few seconds	`/dvd/volume-name`
Files on the first PCMCIA	The PCMCIA and wait for a few seconds	`/pcmem/pcmem0`

If your system has more than one type of removable device, see the following table for their access points.

Table 17–3 Where to Access Removable Media


Media Device	Access File Systems With This Path	Access Raw Data With This Path
First diskette drive	`/floppy/floppy0`	`/vol/dev/aliases/floppy0`
Second diskette drive	`/floppy/floppy1`	`/vol/dev/aliases/floppy1`
First CD-ROM drive	`/cdrom/cdrom0`	`/vol/dev/aliases/cdrom0`
Second CD-ROM drive	`/cdrom/cdrom1`	`/vol/dev/aliases/cdrom1`
First removable hard disk	`/rmdisk/jaz0` `/rmdisk/zip0`	`/vol/dev/aliases/jaz0` `/vol/dev/aliases/zip0`
First PCMCIA drive	`/pcmem/pcmem0`	`/vol/dev/aliases/pcmem0`