02-04-2008
Development to my previous post !!
What i did find out was that the error mesg - 'too many arguments' was due to having numbers in the file as well, instead of just characters !
the code does not work with numbers in the file. It only works for files with characters only. Sorry should have mentioned earlier, got numbers in some of my files too !!!
Can you help me out here. I am trying as well.
Thanks
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fsirand
fsirand(1M) System Administration Commands fsirand(1M)
NAME
fsirand - install random inode generation numbers
SYNOPSIS
fsirand [-p] special
DESCRIPTION
fsirand installs random inode generation numbers on all the inodes on device special, and also installs a file system ID in the superblock.
This helps increase the security of file systems exported by NFS.
fsirand must be used only on an unmounted file system that has been checked with fsck(1M) The only exception is that it can be used on the
root file system in single-user mode, if the system is immediately re-booted afterwards.
OPTIONS
-p Print out the generation numbers for all the inodes, but do not change the generation numbers.
USAGE
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of fsirand when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes).
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWcsu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO
fsck(1M), attributes(5), largefile(5)
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