labelit(1M)						  System Administration Commands					       labelit(1M)

NAME

       labelit - list or provide labels for file systems

SYNOPSIS

       labelit [-F FSType] [-V] [-o FSType-specific-options] special [operands]

DESCRIPTION

       The labelit utility is used to write or display labels on unmounted disk file systems.

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -F FSType       Specify	the  FSType on which to operate. The FSType should either be specified here or be determinable from /etc/vfstab by
		       matching the special with an entry in the table. If no matching entry is found, the default file system type  specified	in
		       /etc/default/fs will be used.

       -V	       Echo  complete  command	line.  This  option  may  be  used to verify and validate the command line. Additional information
		       obtained using a /etc/vfstab lookup is included in the output. The command is not executed.

       -o	       Specify FSType-specific options. See the manual page for the labelit module specific to the file system type.

OPERANDS

       The following operands are supported. If no operands are specified, labelit will display the value of the labels.

       special	       The disk partition (for example, /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s6). The device may not be on a remote machine.

       operands        FSType-specific operands. Consult the manual page of the FSType-specific labelit command for detailed descriptions.

USAGE

       See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of labelit when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes).

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0	       Write or display of labels was successful.

       non-zero        An error occurred.

FILES

       /etc/vfstab	       List of default parameters for each file system.

       /etc/default/fs	       Default local file system type. Default values can be set for the following flags in /etc/default/fs. For example:

			       LOCAL=ufs       The default partition for a command if no FSType is specified.
			       LOCAL

ATTRIBUTES

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

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       labelit_hsfs(1M), labelit_udfs(1M), labelit_ufs(1M), volcopy(1M), vfstab(4), attributes(5), largefile(5)

NOTES

       This utility may not be supported for all FSTypes.

SunOS 5.10							    31 Oct 2000 						       labelit(1M)