question regarding superblock & UFS

From: Vikash Gupta (vikashgupta@yahoo.com)
Date: Sat Feb 03 2007 - 16:33:36 EST


Hi,

There are multiple called alternate super block in a
filesystem which keeps file system info.

You can get the super block details by running the
following command:

newfs -N /dev/dsk/cxtxdxsx

Rgds
Vikash Gupta

--- solaris <sashah76@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hello All,
>
> Just a general question:
>
> As we all know there are four main types of blocks
> on a solaris OS (UFS):
>
> Boot block - boot info (sectors 1-15, 1st cylinder
> group, 1st 8kb)
>
> Superblock - file system info: No of data blocks,
> inodes, cylinder
> groups, block size etc..
>
> inode - stored info about one file
>
> data block - stores data for each file
>
> However, if I have a disk with several slices &
> therefor several FS,
> does each of these have a seperate Superblock? or is
> there just one
> superblock for the entire disk?
>
> Thanks!
>
> Sashah.
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