Hi all!
I'd like to know the differences between hard links and soft links. I've already read the ln manpage, but i'm not quite sure of what i understood.
Does a hard link sort of copy the file to a new name, give it the same inode number and same rights?
What exactly should I do to do this:... (3 Replies)
I am curious about one thing.
Lets say I have a file file-a to which new generations are created on demand by simply archiving it (ex: file-a.tar.gz) and having the new one created with the same original filename file-a.
Now what I want to know is if I create a hard/soft link to file-a, what... (1 Reply)
Hi
PLease let me know the usage of Hard Link vs Soft Link
i.e what is the basic difference and what happens when one file is changed or deleted in both the cases???
thanks (3 Replies)
Hi Experts,
Please help me out to find out difference between a hard link and a soft link.
I am new in unix plz help me with some example commands ( for creating such links).
Regards
S.Kamakshi :) (2 Replies)
Hi guys,
Good day to all. I have a question that how to remove all unavialable soft link in one folder?
Because I moved orginal (source) folder and the soft links which I created have been not available at all. And then how do I remove the soft links in one time?
Any idea?
Thanks &... (3 Replies)
Hi ,
When installing oracle software a set of directories are created under
the home directories.
Since the home directory is usually not big , i would like to create a soft link
from the home directory to mount point with alot of free space , that way the logs will not be wriiten under the... (1 Reply)
hi
i have create a soft link using below command.
ln -s <filename> <dirmane>where file name i use is t1 and dir name was t2.
i deleted the dir t2 using command rm -rf to remove the soft link .
however again i create a file a using the name t2 and when i just try to link t1 to t2 ... (1 Reply)
Hi All,
I tried creating a soft link with the file itself. It got created successfully.
bash-3.2$ ls -l a
lrwxrwxrwx 1 ebrigup other 1 Oct 5 19:14 a -> a
bash-3.2$
Can anyone explain what is the possible use of it. I dont see any except practically wasting an inode... (2 Replies)
Discussion started by: brij123
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LEARN ABOUT DEBIAN
metaclear
metaclear(1M) System Administration Commands metaclear(1M)NAME
metaclear - delete active metadevices and hot spare pools
SYNOPSIS
/usr/sbin/metaclear -h
/usr/sbin/metaclear [-s setname] -a [-f]
/usr/sbin/metaclear component
/usr/sbin/metaclear [-s setname] [-f] metadevice... hot_spare_pool...
/usr/sbin/metaclear [-s setname] -r [-f] metadevice... hot_spare_pool...
/usr/sbin/metaclear [-s setname] -p component
/usr/sbin/metaclear [-s setname] -p metadevice
DESCRIPTION
The metaclear command deletes the specified metadevice or hot_spare_pool., or purges all soft partitions from the designated component.
Once a metadevice or hot spare pool is deleted, it must be re-created using metainit before it can be used again.
Any metadevice currently in use (open) cannot be deleted.
OPTIONS
Root privileges are required for all of the following options except -h.
-a Deletes all metadevices and configured hot spare pools in the set named by -s, or the local set by default.
-f Deletes (forcibly) a metadevice that contains a subcomponent in an error state.
-h Displays usage message.
-p Deletes (purges) all soft partitions from the specified metadevice or component.
-r Recursively deletes specified metadevices and hot spare pools, but does not delete metadevices on which others
depend.
-s setname Specifies the name of the diskset on which metaclear will work. Using the -s option causes the command to perform
its administrative function within the specified diskset. Without this option, the command performs its function on
local metadevices and/or hot spare pools.
OPERANDS
metadevice ... Specifies the name(s) of the metadevice(s) to be deleted.
component Specifies the c*d*t*s* name(s) of the components containing soft partitions to be deleted.
hot_spare_pool ... Specifies the name(s) of the hot spare pools to be deleted in the form hspnnn, where nnn is a number in the range
000-999.
EXAMPLES
Example 1: Deleting Various Devices
The following example deletes a metadevice named d10.
# metaclear /dev/md/dsk/d10
The following example deletes all local metadevices and hot spare pools on the system.
# metaclear -a
The following example deletes a mirror, d20, with an submirror in an error state.
# metaclear -f d20
The following example deletes a hot spare pool, hsp001.
# metaclear hsp001
The following example deletes a soft partition, d23.
# metaclear d23
The following example purges all soft partitions on the slice c2t3d5s2 if those partitions are not being used by other metadevices or are
not open.
# metaclear -p c2t3d5s2
The following example purges soft partitions from a metadevice.
# metaclear -p d2
d3: Soft Partition is cleared
d4: Soft Partition is cleared
d5: Soft Partition is cleared
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Successful completion.
>0 An error occurred.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
| ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
|Availability |SUNWmdu |
+-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
SEE ALSO mdmonitord(1M), metadb(1M), metadetach(1M), metahs(1M), metainit(1M), metaoffline(1M), metaonline(1M), metaparam(1M), metarecover(1M),
metarename(1M), metareplace(1M), metaroot(1M), metaset(1M), metassist(1M), metastat(1M), metasync(1M), metattach(1M), md.tab(4), md.cf(4),
mddb.cf(4), md.tab(4), attributes(5), md(7D)
Solaris Volume Manager Administration Guide
SunOS 5.10 8 Aug 2003 metaclear(1M)