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System Administration Commandsprtvtoc(1M)


NAME

 prtvtoc - report information about a disk geometry and partitioning

SYNOPSIS

 prtvtoc [-fhs] [-t vfstab] [-m mnttab] device

DESCRIPTION

 

The prtvtoc command allows the contents of the VTOC (volume table of contents) to be viewed. The command can be used only by the super-user.

The device name can be the file name of a raw device in the form of /dev/rdsk/c?t?d?s2 or can be the file name of a block device in the form of /dev/dsk/c?t?d?s2.

OPTIONS

 

The following options are supported:

-f
Report on the disk free space, including the starting block address of the free space, number of blocks, and unused partitions.
-h
Omit the headers from the normal output.
-s
Omit all headers but the column header from the normal output.
-t vfstab
Use vfstab as the list of filesystem defaults, in place of /etc/vfstab.
-m mnttab
Use mnttab as the list of mounted filesystems, in place of /etc/mnttab.

EXAMPLES

 Example 1. The prtvtoc command.
 

The command line entry and system response shown below are for a 424-megabyte hard disk:

 
example# prtvtoc /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s2
* /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s2  partition map
*
* Dimension:
*     512 bytes/sector
*      80 sectors/track
*       9 tracks/cylinder
*     720 sectors/cylinder
*    2500 cylinders
*    1151 accessible cylinders
*
* Flags:
*   1: unmountable
*  10: read-only
*

The data in the Tag column above indicates the type of partition, as follows:

NameNumber
UNASSIGNED0x00
BOOT0x01
ROOT0x02
SWAP0x03
USR0x04
BACKUP0x05
STAND0x06
VAR0x07
HOME0x08
ALTSCTR 0x09
CACHE0x0a

The data in the Flags column above indicates how the partition is to be mounted, as follows:

NameNumber
MOUNTABLE, READ AND WRITE0x00
NOT MOUNTABLE0x01
MOUNTABLE, READ ONLY0x10
Example 2. Output for the f option.
 

The following example shows output for the -f option for the same disk as above.

 
example# prtvtoc -f /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s2
FREE_START=0 FREE_SIZE=0 FREE_COUNT=0 FREE_PART=34

ATTRIBUTES

 

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
AvailabilitySUNWcsu

SEE ALSO

 

devinfo(1M), fmthard(1M), format(1M), mount(1M), attributes(5)

WARNINGS

 

The mount command does not check the "not mountable" bit.


SunOS 5.9Go To TopLast Changed 12 Sep 1997

 
      
      
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