Management Utilities and Commands

OCFS2 utilities are described in the following table. For information about syntax for these commands, see their man pages.

Table 9.1. OCFS2 Utilities

OCFS2 Utility

Description

debugfs.ocfs2

Examines the state of the OCFS file system for the purpose of debugging.

fsck.ocfs2

Checks the file system for errors and optionally repairs errors.

mkfs.ocfs2

Creates an OCFS2 file system on a device, usually a partition on a shared physical or logical disk.

mounted.ocfs2

Detects and lists all OCFS2 volumes on a clustered system. Detects and lists all nodes on the system that have mounted an OCFS2 device or lists all OCFS2 devices.

tunefs.ocfs2

Changes OCFS2 file system parameters, including the volume label, number of node slots, journal size for all node slots, and volume size.