Managing the AMASS File System

Conventions

The conventions used throughout the AMASS technical books

 

are listed below:

 

 

 

Convention

Example

 

 

The word “library” usually includes “jukebox”

If using HP SunSpot jukeboxes, install patch

and “standalone drive” and is a generic way to

1234.

reference a storage device.

 

 

 

Screen text, file names, program names, and

Request to add a new volume:

commands are in Courier font.

Volume group will be “20”

 

 

Volume position will be “A123”

 

 

The root prompt is shown as a number

# su root

symbol.

 

 

 

 

What you should type in is shown in Courier

bulkinlet 1,2-10,21,23

bold font.

 

 

 

 

Site-specific variables are in a Times italics

tar -xvftapedevicename

font.

 

 

 

 

A backward slash ( \ ) denotes the input is

# rsh nodename -n dd \

continued onto the next line; the printed page

if=/cdrompath/amass/load.tar\

is just not wide enough to accommodate the

bs=20b tar xvBfb - 20

line.

 

(Type the entire command without the

 

 

 

 

backward slash.)

 

 

Pressing <Return> after each command is

 

assumed.

 

 

 

 

A menu name with an arrow refers to a

Edit Policy —> Add Library

sequence of menus.

 

 

 

 

 

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