UNIX to Linux Porting: A Comprehensive Reference

2017-07-07 02:10:07

G.7. Disk and Filesystem Management

Tables G-7 and G-8 show differences in Linux and Solaris disk and filesystem management and configuration tasks.

Table G-7. ^[*] Disk Management Tasks
Task	Solaris	Linux
Create device files for new device	`devfsadm`	`udev`
Create partitions on the disk	`format` or `fmthard`	`fdisk` or `parted`
Display partition table	`prtvtoc`	`fdisk` or `parted`
Maximum usable partitions	7	15 for SCSI 63 for IDE

^[*] Table A-14 of IBM Redbook

Table G-8. ^[*] Filesystem Management Tasks
Task	Solaris	Linux
Run multiple tasks in a GUI environment	N/A	N/A
Format a disk	`format`	`fdisk`
Check a file system	`fsck`	`fsck`
Mount a filesystem	`mount`	`mount`
Display available filesystem space	`df`	`df`
Partition a disk	`format`	`fdisk`
List a volume's table of contents	`prtvtoc`	`fdisk`
Format a filesystem	`newfs` or `mkfs`	`mkfs`
Unmount a filesystem	`umount`	`umount`
Back up filesystems, files, directories	`ufsdump`	`dump`
Restore filesystems, files, directories	`ufsrestore`	`restore`
Change a filesystem	`tunefs`	RHEL and SLES: `resize2ext` SLES: `resize_reiserfs`
Display filesystem information	`cat /etc/vfstab`	`cat /etc/fstab`
Display filesystem mount table	`/etc/mtab`	`/etc/mtab`

^[*] Table A-15 of IBM Redbook

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