fsinfo(8)

NAME

fsinfo - co-ordinate site-wide file system information

SYNOPSIS

fsinfo  [-qv]  [-a  autodir]  [-b   bootparams_prefix]   [-d
dumpsets_prefix]
       [-e exports_prefix] [-f fstabs_prefix] [-h hostname]
       [-m  automounts_prefix]  [-I  dir] [-D name[=string]]
[-U name]
       config ...

DESCRIPTION

The fsinfo utility takes a set of system configuration in

formation, and
generates a coordinated set of amd(8), mount(8) and

mountd(8) configuration files.

The following options are available:

-a autodir Specifies the directory name in which to place

the auto

mounter's mount points. This defaults to /a.

-b bootparams_prefix

Specifies the prefix for the bootparams file.

If it is not
given, then the file will not be generated. The

file will be
constructed for the destination machine and will

be placed
into a file named bootparams and prefixed by the bootparams_prefix string. The file generated

contains a list
of entries describing each diskless client that

can boot from
the destination machine.

-d dumpsets_prefix

Specifies the prefix for the dumpsets file. If

it is not
specified, then the file will not be generated.

The file
will be for the destination machine and will be

placed into a
file named dumpsets prefixed by the

dumpsets_prefix string.
This file is for use by Imperial College's local

backup system.

-e exports_prefix

Defines the prefix for the exports files. If it

is not
given, then the file will not be generated. For

each machine
defined in the configuration files as having

disks, and
exports file is constructed and given a file

name determined
by the name of the machine, prefixed with the

exports_prefix
string. If a machine is defined as diskless,

then no file
will be created for it. The files contain en

tries for directories on the machine that may be exported to

clients.

-f fstabs_prefix

This defines the prefix for the fstab files.

The files will
only be created if this prefix is defined. For

each machine
defined in the configuration files, a fstab file

is created
with the file name determined by prefixing this

fstabs_prefix
string with the name of the machine. These

files contain
entries for file systems and partitions to mount

at boot
time.

-h hostname

Defines the hostname of the destination machine

to process
for. If this is not specified, it defaults to

the local
machine name, as returned by gethostname(3).

-m automounts_prefix

Defines the prefix for the automounter files.

The maps will
only be produced if this option is specified.

The mount maps
suitable for the network defined by the configu

ration files
will be placed into files with names calculated

by prefixing
the automounts_prefix string to the name of each

map.

-q Selects quite mode. Only error messages that

are generated

will be displayed.

-v Selects verbose mode. When this is activated,

more messages

will be displayed, and all information discov

ered when performing the semantic analysis phase will be dis

played. Each
verbose message is output to the standard output

on a line
starting with a `#' character.

-D name[=string]

Defines a symbol name for the preprocessor when

reading the
configuration files. Equivalent to the #define

directive.

-I dir This option is passed into the preprocessor for

the configu

ration files. It specifies directories in which

to find
include files.

-U name Removes and initial definition of the symbol

name. Inverse

of the -D option.

config One or more configuration files to be passed as

input to

fsinfo.

The fsinfo command is fully described in the document Amd

The 4.4BSD
Automounter and in the amd section in info(1).

SEE ALSO

amd(8), mount(8), mountd(8)

HISTORY

The fsinfo command first appeared in 4.4BSD.

BSD June 26, 1999

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