Creating File Contexts (System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (FNS and NIS+))

System Administration Guide: Naming and Directory Services (FNS and NIS+)

Creating File Contexts

The fncreate_fs command creates file contexts for organizations and sites with the description of the binding entered from the command line.
fncreate_fs [-r] [-v] name [options] [mount]
The fncreate_fs command creates file contexts for organizations and sites with the description of the bindings supplied by an input file.
fncreate_fs [-r] [-v] -f file name

Table 25–6 fncreate_fs Command Options


Option	Description
`name`	The name of the file context.
`options`	Mount options.
`mount`	Mount location.
`-f file`	Input file.
`-v`	Verbose. Displays information about the contexts being created.
`-r`	Replace the bindings in the context `name` with those specified in the input.

For example:

To create a file system context named data for the sales organization bound to the /export/data path of an NFS server named server4.

# fncreate_fs org/sales/fs/data server4:/export/data

To create a hierarchy of file system contexts for the sales organization named buyers and buyers/orders mounted on two different servers:

# fncreate_fs org/sales/fs/buyers server2:/export/buyers
# fncreate_fs org/sales/fs/buyers/orders server3:/export/orders

To create a file system context named leads for the sales organization bound to a server and path specified by an input file named input_a:

# fncreate_fs -f input_a org/sales/fs/leads

(See the fncreate_fs man page for information on input file format.)