Features and Benefits

The Solaris environment gives users and software developers a standard interface for dealing with diskettes and CDs. Referred to as Volume Management, this interface provides three major benefits:

• By automatically mounting diskettes and CDs, it simplifies their use. (For a comparison between manual and automatic mounting, see Table 11-1.)

• It enables you to access diskettes and CDs without having to become superuser.

• It allows you to give other systems on the network automatic access to any diskettes and CDs you insert into your system (see Chapter 12, Using CDs From the Command Line (Tasks) and Chapter 13, Formatting and Using Diskettes From the Command Line (Tasks)).