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File System Management

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Commands
Categorical List of Commands
System Management
File System Management
automount Mounts automatic mount points.
automountd AutoFS mount and unmount daemon.
backsnap Provides an interface to create a snapshot for a JFS2 file system and perform a backup of the snapshot.
cachefslog Controls the logging of a cache file system.
cachefsstat Displays information about a cache file system.
cachefswssize Displays the work space size for a cache file system.
cfsadmin Administers disk space used for caching file systems with the Cache File-System (CacheFS).
chfs Changes attributes of a file system.
chvfs Changes entries in the /etc/vfs file.
crfs Adds a file system.
crvfs Creates entries in the /etc/vfs file.
defragfs Increases a file system's contiguous free space.
df Reports information about space on file systems. This document describes the AIX df command as well as the System V version of df.
dfsck Checks and repairs two file systems simultaneously on different drives.
du Summarizes disk usage.
dumpfs Dumps file system information.
ff Lists the file names and statistics for a file system.
filemon Monitors the performance of the file system, and reports the I/O activity on behalf of logical files, virtual memory segments, logical volumes, and physical volumes.
fsck Checks file system consistency and interactively repairs the file system.
fsck_cachefs Checks the integrity of data cached with CacheFS.
fsdb Debugs file systems.
istat Examines i-nodes.
logform Initializes a logical volume for use as a Journaled File System (JFS) or Enhanced Journaled File System (JFS2) log.
lsfs Displays the characteristics of file systems.
lsvfs Lists entries in the /etc/vfs file.
mkcfsmnt Mounts a CacheFS directory.
mkfs Makes a file system.
mklostandfound Creates a lost and found directory for the fsck command.
mkproto Constructs a prototype file system.
mount Makes a file system available for use.
mountd Answers requests from clients for file system mounts.
proto Constructs a prototype file for a file system.
quot Summarizes file system ownership.
quota Displays disk usage and quotas.
quotacheck Checks file system quota consistency.
quotaon Turns on and off file system quotas.
repquota Summarizes quotas for a file system.
rmfs Removes a file system.
rmvfs Removes entries in the /etc/vfs file.
showmount Displays a list of all clients that have remotely mounted file systems.
skulker Cleans up file systems by removing unwanted files.
snapshot Modify, create or view properties of snapshots.
sync Updates the i-node table and writes buffered files to the hard disk.
udfcheck Performs a file system check on a UDF file system.
udfcreate Creates UDF file systems.
udflabel Fetches and changes the label on a UDF file system.
umount Unmounts a previously mounted file system, directory, or file.
umountall Unmounts groups of dismountable devices or filesystems.
update Periodically updates the super block.