Managing the AMASS File System

WARNING, volformat will overwrite the entire volume

DO NOT FORMAT volumes which have good files on them

You cannot format active volumes Do you want to continue?

[y - n] y

The following volumes will be formatted: 33

1 volume(s) to be formatted? [y - n] y

volformat: format of volume 33 started

volformat: format of volume 33 complete

volformat: completed formatting all volumes

Step 7. To further prepare the volume so AMASS can read or write to it, use the commands listed in the following table.

Command

Description

 

 

volstat

Mark the volume Active in the

 

Database

 

Active allows AMASS to read and

 

write to media

 

 

Attributes Within Volume Groups

Each volume’s attributes within a numerical volume group must be uniform. For example, if the first volume in a numerical volume group has been formatted with compression ON and a block size of 64 KB, all the volumes in that volume group will have these identical attributes.

If you reassign media from one volume group to another volume group (with the volgroup -foption), AMASS makes sure the media attributes from the first volume group match the

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