Preparing to Use a USB Mass Storage Device With vold Running (System Administration Guide: Devices and File Systems)

System Administration Guide: Devices and File Systems

Preparing to Use a USB Mass Storage Device With `vold` Running

If you are running the Solaris Common Desktop Environment (CDE), USB removable mass storage devices are managed by the Removable Media Manager component of the CDE File Manager. For more information on the CDE File Manager, see dtfile(1).

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You must include the /usr/dt/man directory in your MANPATH variable to display the man pages that are listed in this section. You must also have the /usr/dt/bin directory in your path and have CDE running to use these commands, or have a DISPLAY variable set to use these commands remotely.

The following table identifies the commands that Removable Media Manager uses to manage storage devices from the CDE environment.

Command	Man Page	Task
`sdtmedia_format`	`sdtmedia_format(1)`	Format and label a device
`sdtmedia_prop`	`sdtmedia_prop(1)`	Display properties of a device
`sdtmedia_prot`	`sdtmedia_prot(1)`	Change device protection
`sdtmedia_slice`	`sdtmedia_slice(1)`	Create or modify slices on a device

After the USB device is formatted, it is usually mounted under the /rmdisk/label directory. For more information on configuring removable storage devices, see rmmount.conf(4) or vold.conf(4).

The device nodes are created under the /vol/dev directory. For more information, see scsa2usb(7D).

The following procedures describe how to manage USB mass storage devices without vold running. The device nodes are created under the /dev/rdsk directory for character devices and under the /dev/dsk directory for block devices. Device links are created when the devices are hot-plugged. For more information, see scsa2usb(7D).