Managing file systems, data, free space, file system backup, and restore are some of the most important system administration tasks. This chapters provides an overview of how files and directories are organized to form a file system, and describes different types of file system supported by Oracle Solaris.
This chapter contains the following topics:
To familiarize with the common terminologies related to Oracle Solaris data and storage, see Glossary in Managing SAN Devices and Multipathing in Oracle Solaris 11.3.