About This Book

System Administration Guide: Devices and File Systems is part of a set that includes a significant part of the Oracle Solaris system administration information. This guide contains information for both SPARC based and x86 based systems.

This book assumes you have completed the following tasks:

Installed the Oracle Solaris 11 Operating System
Set up all the networking software that you plan to use

For the Oracle Solaris 11 releases, new features of interest to system administrators are covered in sections called What's New in ... ? in the appropriate chapters.

Note - This Oracle Solaris release supports systems that use the SPARC and x86 families of processor architectures. The supported systems appear in the Oracle Solaris Hardware Compatibility List at http://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/hcl/index.html. This document cites any implementation differences between the platform types.

Who Should Use This Book

This book is intended for anyone responsible for administering one or more systems running the Oracle Solaris 11 release. To use this book, you should have 1–2 years of UNIX system administration experience. Attending UNIX system administration training courses might be helpful.

How the System Administration Guides Are Organized

Here is a list of the topics that are covered by the System Administration Guides.

Book Title	Topics
Booting and Shutting Down Oracle Solaris on SPARC Platforms	Booting and shutting down a system, managing boot services, modifying boot behavior, booting from ZFS, managing the boot archive, and troubleshooting booting on SPARC platforms
Booting and Shutting Down Oracle Solaris on x86 Platforms	Booting and shutting down a system, managing boot services, modifying boot behavior, booting from ZFS, managing the boot archive, and troubleshooting booting on x86 platforms
Oracle Solaris Administration: Common Tasks	Using Oracle Solaris commands, booting and shutting down a system, managing user accounts and groups, managing services, hardware faults, system information, system resources, and system performance, managing software, printing, the console and terminals, and troubleshooting system and software problems
Oracle Solaris Administration: Devices and File Systems	Removable media, disks and devices, file systems, and backing up and restoring data
Oracle Solaris Administration: IP Services	TCP/IP network administration, IPv4 and IPv6 address administration, DHCP, IPsec, IKE, IP Filter, and IPQoS
Oracle Solaris Administration: Naming and Directory Services	DNS, NIS, and LDAP naming and directory services, including transitioning from NIS to LDAP
Oracle Solaris Administration: Network Interfaces and Network Virtualization	Automatic and manual IP interface configuration including WiFi wireless; administration of bridges, VLANs, aggregations, LLDP, and IPMP; virtual NICs and resource management.
Oracle Solaris Administration: Network Services	Web cache servers, time-related services, network file systems (NFS and autofs), mail, SLP, and PPP
Oracle Solaris Administration: Oracle Solaris Zones, Oracle Solaris 10 Zones, and Resource Management	Resource management features, which enable you to control how applications use available system resources; Oracle Solaris Zones software partitioning technology, which virtualizes operating system services to create an isolated environment for running applications; and Oracle Solaris 10 Zones, which host Oracle Solaris 10 environments running on the Oracle Solaris 11 kernel
Oracle Solaris Administration: Security Services	Auditing, device management, file security, BART, Kerberos services, PAM, Cryptographic Framework, Key Management, privileges, RBAC, SASL, Secure Shell, and virus scanning
Oracle Solaris Administration: SMB and Windows Interoperability	SMB service, which enables you to configure an Oracle Solaris system to make SMB shares available to SMB clients; SMB client, which enables you to access SMB shares; and native identity mapping services, which enables you to map user and group identities between Oracle Solaris systems and Windows systems
Oracle Solaris Administration: ZFS File Systems	ZFS storage pool and file system creation and management, snapshots, clones, backups, using access control lists (ACLs) to protect ZFS files, using ZFS on a Solaris system with zones installed, emulated volumes, and troubleshooting and data recovery
Trusted Extensions Configuration and Administration	System installation, configuration, and administration that is specific to Trusted Extensions
Oracle Solaris 11 Security Guidelines	Securing an Oracle Solaris system, as well as usage scenarios for its security features, such as zones, ZFS, and Trusted Extensions
Transitioning From Oracle Solaris 10 to Oracle Solaris 11	Provides system administration information and examples for transitioning from Oracle Solaris 10 to Oracle Solaris 11 in the areas of installation, device, disk, and file system management, software management, networking, system management, security, virtualization, desktop features, user account management, and user environments

Access to Oracle Support

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What Typographic Conventions Mean

The following table describes the typographic conventions used in this book.

Table P-1 Typographic Conventions

Typeface or Symbol	Meaning	Example
`AaBbCc123`	The names of commands, files, and directories; on screen computer output	Edit your `.login` file. Use `ls` `-a` to list all files. `machine_name% you have mail.`
`AaBbCc123`	What you type, contrasted with on screen computer output	`machine_name%` `su` `Password:`
`AaBbCc123`	Command-line placeholder: replace with a real name or value	To delete a file, type `rm` `filename`.
AaBbCc123	Book titles, new words or terms, or words to be emphasized	Read Chapter 6 in User's Guide. These are called class options. Do not save changes yet.

Shell Prompts in Command Examples

The following table shows the default system prompt and superuser (or administrative) prompt for the C shell, Bourne shell, and Korn shell.

Table P-2 Shell Prompts

Shell	Prompt
C shell prompt	`machine_name%`
C shell superuser prompt	`machine_name#`
Bourne shell and Korn shell prompt	`$`
Bourne shell and Korn shell superuser prompt	`#`

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