labelit(1M) System Administration Commands labelit(1M)NAMElabelit - list or provide labels for file systems
SYNOPSISlabelit [-F FSType] [-V] [-o FSType-specific-options] special [oper‐
ands]
DESCRIPTION
The labelit utility is used to write or display labels on unmounted
disk file systems.
OPTIONS
The following options are supported:
-F FSType Specify the FSType on which to operate. The FSType
should either be specified here or be determinable from
/etc/vfstab by matching the special with an entry in
the table. If no matching entry is found, the default
file system type specified in /etc/default/fs will be
used.
-V Echo complete command line. This option may be used to
verify and validate the command line. Additional infor‐
mation obtained using a /etc/vfstab lookup is included
in the output. The command is not executed.
-o Specify FSType-specific options. See the manual page
for the labelit module specific to the file system
type.
OPERANDS
The following operands are supported. If no operands are specified,
labelit will display the value of the labels.
special The disk partition (for example, /dev/rdsk/c0t3d0s6).
The device may not be on a remote machine.
operands FSType-specific operands. Consult the manual page of
the FSType-specific labelit command for detailed
descriptions.
USAGE
See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of labelit when
encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2**31 bytes).
EXIT STATUS
The following exit values are returned:
0 Write or display of labels was successful.
non-zero An error occurred.
FILES
/etc/vfstab List of default parameters for each file sys‐
tem.
/etc/default/fs Default local file system type. Default values
can be set for the following flags in
/etc/default/fs. For example:
LOCAL=ufs The default partition for a
LOCAL command if no FSType is speci‐
fied.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
┌─────────────────────────────┬─────────────────────────────┐
│ ATTRIBUTE TYPE │ ATTRIBUTE VALUE │
├─────────────────────────────┼─────────────────────────────┤
│Availability │SUNWcsu │
└─────────────────────────────┴─────────────────────────────┘
SEE ALSOlabelit_hsfs(1M), labelit_udfs(1M), labelit_ufs(1M), volcopy(1M),
vfstab(4), attributes(5), largefile(5)NOTES
This utility may not be supported for all FSTypes.
SunOS 5.10 31 Oct 2000 labelit(1M)