DFU V2.4

DFU V2.4


Abstract

DFU Disk and File Utilities for OpenVMS VAX and Alpha

Revision Information: This manual supersedes V2.2

Date: August 1996

Operating System: OpenVMS VAX V5.5-2 thru 7.1, Alpha V6.1 thru 7.1

Note: Part of the Freeware CD-ROM


OpenVMS Freeware for VAX and AXP Systems

The OpenVMS Freeware CD-ROM contains free software tools and utilities to aid software developers in creating applications and managing and using OpenVMS systems.

Many of these tools are popular packages already widely known and in use, while others are internally developed Digital tools our engineers are making available to our OpenVMS customers. For example, the OpenVMS Freeware CD-ROM includes Bliss-32 for OpenVMS VAX, Bliss-32 for OpenVMS AXP, and Bliss-64 for OpenVMS AXP.

Disclaimer on Testing, Quality, and Licensing

The OpenVMS Freeware for VAX and AXP Systems CD-ROM is provided "AS IS" without warranty. Digital imposes no restrictions on its distribution, nor on the redistribution of anything on it. Be aware, however, that some of the packages on the CD-ROM may carry restrictions on their use imposed by the original authors. Therefore, you should carefully read the documentation accompanying the products.

Digital Equipment Corporation is providing this software free of charge and without warranty. Included in the [FREEWARE] directory on this CD are the GNU software licenses. Unless otherwise stated in sources or source packages, the GNU licenses cover all software supplied on this CD.

Digital makes no claims about the quality of this software. It is provided to the customer as a free service.

Copyright©August 1996


Contents


Chapter 1
Introduction

The Disk and File Utilities (DFU) is a high perfomance tool meant as an aid to the system manager who is responsible for monitoring and maintaining disks, files and directories. It makes use of low level I/O features of VMS. As a result a high level of performance is reached with minimal overhead on the system. DFU supports all types of disk sets which comply to the VMS ODS-2 standard such as volume sets, stripe sets , shadow sets and RAID sets, and combinations of these.

DFU does NOT work on Spiralog disks. Trying to use DFU on spiralog disks will produce the error "%DFU-E-NOTF11, Device does not have an ODS-2 filesystem" .

1.1 Support on DFU

Although there is no official support on DFU you may send questions/remarks/bug-reports to the author via internet address dorland@utrtsc.enet.dec.com. A next version of DFU will no longer work on VMS 5.5-2 and VMS 6.0.

1.2 General description

DFU provides the following functions (in alphabetical order) :