lifinit(1) General Commands Manual lifinit(1)
NAME
lifinit - write LIF volume header on file
SYNOPSIS
nnn] nnn] string] nnn] nnn] nnn] file
DESCRIPTION
writes a LIF volume header on a volume or file.
Options
recognizes the following options and command-line arguments which can appear in any order:
Sets volume size to
nnn bytes. If nnn is not a multiple of 256, it is rounded down to the next such multiple.
Sets directory size to
nnn file entries. If nnn is not an integer multiple of 8, it is rounded up to next such multiple.
Sets the volume name to be
string. If the option is not specified, the volume name is set to the last component of the path name specified by file.
A legal LIF volume name is 6 characters long and is limited to uppercase letters (A-Z), digits (0-9) and the underscore
character (_). The first character (if any) must be a letter. The utility automatically performs translation to create
legal LIF volume names. Therefore, all lowercase letters are converted to uppercase, and all other characters except
numeric and underscore are replaced with a capital letter If the volume name does not start with a letter, the volume
name is preceded by a capital letter The volume name is also right-padded with spaces or truncated as needed to be six
characters long. If is used with no string, the default volume name is set to 6 spaces.
set the initial system load (ISL) start address to
nnn in the volume label. This is useful when building boot media for Series 700/800 systems.
specifies the length in bytes of the ISL code in the LIF volume.
set the ISL entry point to
nnn bytes from the beginning of the ISL. For example, specifying means that the ISL entry point is 3272 (decimal) bytes
from the beginning of the ISL object module.
forces the directory start location to be the nearest multiple of
nnn x 1024 bytes from the beginning of the volume. This is necessary for booting Series 700/800 systems from LIF media.
If file does not exist, a regular HP-UX disk file is created and initialized.
The default values for volume size are 256 kilobytes for regular files, and the actual capacity of the device for device files.
The default directory size is a function of the volume size. A percentage of the volume size is allocated to the volume directory as fol-
lows:
|
Volume Size | Directory Size
------------+----------------
< 2MB | ~1.3%
> 2MB | ~0.5%
Each directory entry occupies 32 bytes of storage. The actual directory space is subject to the rounding rules stated above.
RETURN VALUE
returns exit code 0 if the volume is initialized successfully. Otherwise it prints a diagnostic message and returns nonzero.
EXAMPLES
Initialize file to be a LIF volume containing 500000 bytes with 10 directory file entries:
Initialize device as a LIF volume using default initialization conditions (device must not be a mounted file system device):
WARNINGS
To prevent media corruption, do not terminate lifinit once it has started executing.
AUTHOR
was developed by HP.
SEE ALSO
lifcp(1), lifls(1), lifrename(1), lifrm(1), lif(4).
lifinit(1)