Using NetWare Volume Setup

Use the scoadmin NetWare Volume Setup utility to create, list, change, optimize, repair, and delete volumes and volume information.

To use NetWare Volume Setup, carry out either of the following:

• At the command line, enter the scoadmin command. When the scoadmin window appears, select ``NetWare'' then select ``NetWare Volume Setup''.

• At the command line, enter the following:
  
  scoadmin netware volume setup

  Note that arguments to the scoadmin command are case-insensitive, so the following are equivalent:
  
  scoadmin netware volume setup
  
  scoadmin NetWare Volume Setup

From this window, you can perform all the tasks listed previously.

Adding a volume

During the installation of NetWare Services, an FSType is chosen automatically.

You can create additional volumes later by performing the following basic steps:

• Shut down the NetWare server using the scoadmin NetWare Server Status utility.

• Determine where you want to create the new volume. This is the path to the Root of the volume.

• Create the new volume using scoadmin NetWare Volume Setup utility.

• Restart NetWare using scoadmin's NetWare Server Status utility.

• Add the volume into the directory using the scoadmin Directory Services Install utility.

The following list describes the prerequisites:

• Access to scoadmin(1M)

• System Owner permission or network administration privileges to use the scoadmin NetWare Volume Setup utility

1. Shut down NetWare: from scoadmin, select NetWare, then select the NetWare Server Status utility.

   A Status window appears. Bringing down the server may take several minutes to perform.

2. Click on ``Stop''.

3. Select the scoadmin NetWare Volume Setup utilty, to determine where NetWare volumes already exist. These are displayed in the window.

4. Check control directories for new volumes to determine whether enough free blocks exist to add a volume.

   You can do this at the command line by typing df or dfspace (see the df(1M) manual page for details).

   The nwcontrol file contains information on volumes and namespaces. How many volumes and namespaces you add determines how many free blocks are needed.

5. In the ``NetWare Volume Setup'' window, either select a volume to activate the toolbar and click ``Create a new volume'' or click on ``Volume'' and select ``New''.

   The ``Add new volume'' window appears.

6. At the ``Add new volume'' window, set the following variables as appropriate.

   • Volume Name. Type the name you want to use for the new volume. Only up to 15 characters are allowed.

   • Type. Click on Standard or CDROM. This gives you the option of mounting the Standard interface or from the CD-ROM media.

   • Name Spaces. Choose one or more options. This specifies the client types the volume will support. UNIX and DOS are always active.

   • Mount Point. If this already exists, you cannot change it. Otherwise, type the mount point path.

   • Control Directory. This stores the NetWare and client-specific information about the volume and is created by default.

   The following options apply if you select Standard.

   • Attributes. Choose Read and Write or Read-Only. This specifies if the volume can only be read, or if users can read or write to it.

   • File Access Control. Choose NetWare, UNIX, Both, or None. This specifies how access control is established for the volume.

   • Sync at Mount Time? ``Yes'' means synchronize when a volume is mounted. Note that this may take some time. ``No'' means you do not want to synchronize. NFS-mounted volumes may choose to select ``No''; otherwise, server startup may take a long time.

   • Dir Purge Threshold. This displays the number of deleted file entries that must exist in a directory before they can be purged from the usinodes file. The default is 32.

   • Min Sync Interval. This specifies the minimum number of seconds that must elapse between directory synchronization operations upon directory access. The default is 10.

   • Force Sync Interval. This specifies the maximum number of seconds between directory synchronization operations. If this value is smaller than ``Min Sync Interval'', ``Min Sync Interval'' is ignored and synchronization will occur every force sync interval seconds. The default is 900.

   • Max File Number. This specifies the maximum number of files allowed in the NetWare usinodes file. The default is 10000.

7. Click OK.

   The volume is added to the voltab file; it is not yet added to NetWare Directory Services.

8. To add the volume information to NDS, bring up the server, and select the scoadmin Directory Services Install utility.

Listing volumes

Listing volumes applies only if the NetWare server is running. When you select the scoadmin NetWare Volume Setup utility, a window appears. The list of existing volumes appears on this screen, along with the type, mount point, and name space selected.

Displaying or changing volume properties

Use the following procedure to view the current properties for a selected volume.

The following list describes the prerequisites:

• Access to scoadmin(1M)

• System Owner permission to use scoadmin's NetWare Volume Setup utility

1. At the ``NetWare Volume Setup'' window, click on the volume, then either click ``Volume and Properties'' or click ``Display properties of the volume'' on the toolbar.

   The ``Volume Properties'' window appears. You can view or change the properties from this window.

2. Click OK.

Optimizing a volume

Use the following procedure to optimize a selected volume. This task rewrites the NetWare usinodes file to allow file information to become contiguous in blocks and remove any unused blocks of data; it makes your volume more efficient.

The following list describes the prerequesites:

• Access to scoadmin(1M)

• System Owner permission to use scoadmin's NetWare Volume Setup utility

• The NetWare server must have been shut down using the scoadmin NetWare Server Status utility

1. At the ``NetWare Volume Manager'' window, select the volume to optimize.

2. At the Volume option, either select ``Optimize'' or click ``Optimize Standard type of volume'' on the toolbar.

   A message appears and states that the optimization could take several minutes, depending on the size of the volume.

3. Click OK.

Repairing a volume

You may need to repair a volume if, for example, you experience a power failure when a server is updating a file on a volume.

When the volume is repaired, NetWare Services traverses the usinodes file and synchronizes the data in the file with the data on the volume. It also removes corrupted entries in the usinodes file and adds new entries, if needed.

Use the following procedure to repair a selected volume.

The following list describes the prerequesites:

• Access to scoadmin(1M)

• System Owner permission to use scoadmin's NetWare Volume Setup utility

• The NetWare server must have been shut down using the scoadmin NetWare Server Status utility

1. At the ``NetWare Volume Manager'' window, select the volume to repair.

2. At the Volume option, either select ``Repair'' or click ``Repair a Standard type of volume'' on the toolbar.

   A message appears asking you to wait for a few minutes while the selected volume is being repaired.

3. Click OK.

Deleting volumes

When you delete a volume in NetWare Services, you remove the entry and inodes that exist in the voltab file. You do not delete the files. Use the following procedure to delete a volume entry and inodes from the NetWare server.

NetWare Services does not remove the files in the volume. If you want to delete the files from a volume, you must use the UnixWare command line. See rm(1).

The following list describes the prerequesites:

• Access to scoadmin(1M)

• System Owner permission to use scoadmin's NetWare Volume Setup utility

• The NetWare server must have been shut down using the scoadmin NetWare Server Status utility.

1. At the ``NetWare Volume Manager'' window, either click on ``Volume'' and select ``Delete'' or click ``Delete a volume'' on the toolbar.

   A window appears to confirm that you want to delete or cancel deletion of the volume.

2. Click OK.

3. Restart NetWare Services: from scoadmin, select NetWare, then select the NetWare Server Status utility.

4. At the ``NetWare Status'' window, click Start.

Using a CD-ROM as a NetWare volume

See the variable ``Type'' in ``Adding a volume'' for information on how to use CD-ROM.