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Oracle Solaris 11.1 Administration: Devices and File Systems     Oracle Solaris 11.1 Information Library
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Preface

1.  Managing Removable Media (Tasks)

2.  Writing CDs and DVDs (Tasks)

3.  Managing Devices (Tasks)

4.  Dynamically Configuring Devices (Tasks)

5.  Managing USB Devices (Tasks)

6.  Using InfiniBand Devices (Overview/Tasks)

7.  Managing Disks (Overview)

8.  Managing Disk Use (Tasks)

9.  Administering Disks (Tasks)

10.  Setting Up Disks (Tasks)

11.  Configuring Storage Devices With COMSTAR (Tasks)

12.  Configuring and Managing the Oracle Solaris Internet Storage Name Service (iSNS)

13.  The format Utility (Reference)

14.  Managing File Systems (Overview)

What's New in Oracle Solaris File Systems?

Shared File Systems Across Boot Environments

Where to Find File System Management Tasks

Overview of File Systems

Types of Oracle Solaris File Systems

Oracle Solaris Disk-Based File Systems

The Universal Disk Format (UDFS) File System

Network-Based File Systems

Virtual File Systems

Temporary File System

The Loopback File System

Process File System

Additional Virtual File Systems

Extended File Attributes

Swap Space

Default Oracle Solaris File Systems

Overview of Mounting and Unmounting File Systems

The Mounted File System Table

The Virtual File System Table

The NFS Environment

NFS Version 4

Automounting (autofs)

The Oracle Solaris SMB Service

Determining a File System's Type

How to Determine a File System's Type

15.  Creating and Mounting File Systems (Tasks)

16.  Configuring Additional Swap Space (Tasks)

17.  Copying Files and File Systems (Tasks)

18.  Managing Tape Drives (Tasks)

Index

What's New in Oracle Solaris File Systems?

Shared File Systems Across Boot Environments

A mechanism that enables automatic data sharing across different boot environments is available in this release. These shared directories are stored in the rpool/VARSHARE file system that is mounted at /var/share. Placement of shared data in the /var directory reduces the amount of space needed for all boot environments.

For example:

# ls /var/share
audit cores crash mail 

The /var/share file system generally requires no administration, with the exception of ensuring that the /varcomponents do not fill the root file system.

Symbolic links are automatically created from /var to the /var/sharecomponents listed above for compatibility purposes. For more information, see datasets(5).