User Guide

6 Traditional File Services Administration Guide
Traditional File Services Administration Guide
103-000180-001
August 30, 2001
Novell Confidential
Manual 99a38 July 17, 2001
Mapping Drives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Mapping Drives in Windows 95/98, NT/2000 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Mapping Drives in DOS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Distributing Applications on the Network . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
Security: Rights to Files and Directories. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
Description of Directory and File Rights . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Adding a Trustee to a Directory or File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Viewing/Modifying the Inherited Rights Filter for Directories and Files . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
Setting Directory or File Attributes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Description of Directory and File Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Changing Attributes of a Directory or File . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
4 Optimizing File System Performance 35
Saving Disk Space with File Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Enabling File Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Disabling File Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Setting File Compression Attributes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
Suspending File Compression . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Saving Disk Space with File Purging . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
Saving Disk Space with Block Suballocation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
Enhancing Disk Response Time With Disk Striping. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
5 Managing 39
Managing Volumes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Viewing Directory and File Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Copying or Moving Directories and Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
Salvaging and Purging Files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Protecting Data: Disk Mirroring and Duplexing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
Using Directory Map Objects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
6 Troubleshooting 43
Resolving File I/O Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Resolving Volume I/O Errors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Resolving Problems When the Server Hangs after Mounting Last Volume . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
Resolving Problems When No Volumes Mount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Resolving Problems When Only Some Volumes Mount . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Resolving Disk Error Problems When a Volume Is Mounting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Resolving Memory Errors When a Volume Is Mounting. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
Resolving Volume Mounting Problems Because of Corrupted Directory Entry Tables or File Allocation
Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Resolving Volume Mounting Problems Because of Name Space Module . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Other Troubleshooting Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49