Apple Training Series: Mac OS X System Administration Reference, Volume 1

What You've Learned

• The HFS Plus Mac OS X volume type differs from UFS and other supported types, particularly with respect to the handling of file forks.

• Mac OS X supports both aliases and symbolic links.

• The disk arbitration daemon keeps track of available disks.

• Use the find command to remove dot files that would show up on Windows machines connected to your file share.

• lsof will show you what processes are using currently open files.

• du and df are important tools for determining disk utilization.

References

Apple Knowledge Base Documents

The following Knowledge Base documents (located at www.apple.com/support) provide further information about local volumes and files.

Document 8647, "File System Specifications and Terms"

Document 25557, "Mac OS X: Mac OS Extended Format - Volume and File Limits"