Administrative Tasks
600716 Rev A System Tasks 1-15
System Tasks
The utilities that operate on specific file systems are:
blockpos, dirdb, fileattr, filecmnt, filecomp
and filexpir.
All of the utilities, with the exception of keytest,havetwo
modes:
• Command Line Mode.
• Interactive Mode.
Both modes are described below.
For both Command Line Mode and Interactive Mode, an
additional parameter called the device key is required before
running the utility. This parameter must be the first parameter
given to the command
Step 1. To determine the device key,consult the devdb
table. An entry or output from the devdb utility may
look similar to the output shown below:
Step 2. Assume that you now want to check files on the
/test2 migration file system.
Note
The one table utility that does not work like the others is the
keytest utility.
dvdmhdl :099c17edal7e8fd1
dvdmsz :8
device key :4
dvpath :/test2