# Administration Reference

## fs examine

Purpose

Displays information about the volume containing a directory or file

Synopsis

    fs examine [-path <dir/file path>+]  [-help]

    fs exa [-p <dir/file path>+]  [-h]

    fs listvol [-p <dir/file path>+]  [-h]

    fs listv [-p <dir/file path>+]  [-h]

    fs lv [-p <dir/file path>+]  [-h]

Description

The fs examine command displays information about the volume containing each specified directory or file, including its volume ID number, quota and the percentage of its quota that is used.

This command provides the most information about a volume, but the fs listquota command displays similar information in tabular format, and the fs quota command reports only the percentage of quota used.

To set volume quota, use the fs setquota or fs setvol command.

Cautions

The partition-related statistics in this command's output do not always agree with the corresponding values in the output of the standard UNIX df command. The statistics reported by this command can be up to five minutes old, because the Cache Manager polls the File Server for partition information at that frequency. Also, on some operating systems, the df command's report of partition size includes reserved space not included in this command's calculation, and so is likely to be about 10% larger.

Options

-path
  Names a file or directory that resides in the volume about which to produce output. Partial pathnames are interpreted relative to the current working directory, which is also the default value if this argument is omitted.

-help
  Prints the online help for this command. All other valid options are ignored.

Output

The output displays information about the volume that houses each specified directory or file, in the following format

       Volume status for vid = volume ID named volume name
       Current offline message is message
       Current disk quota is quota in kilobytes
       Current blocks used are volume size in kilobytes
       The partition has available partition blocks available out of
          partition size

where the first line specifies the volume's ID number and name. The `Current` `offline` `message` line appears only if an administrator has included the -offlinemsg argument to the fs setvol command. The remaining lines report, respectively,

- the volume's quota in kilobytes, or the string `unlimited` to indicate an unlimited quota

- the volume's current size in kilobytes

- the number of blocks available and total size of the host partition, both in kilobytes.

Examples

The following example shows the output for the volume user.smith and the partition housing it:

       % fs examine -path /afs/abc.com/usr/smith
       Volume status for vid = 50489902 named user.smith
       Current maximum quota is 15000
       Current blocks used are 5073
       The partition has 336662 blocks available out of 4177920

Privilege Required

The issuer must have the l (lookup) permission on the ACL of the root directory of the volume that houses the file or directory named by the -path argument, and on the ACL of each directory that precedes it in the pathname.

Related Information

fs listquota

fs quota

fs setquota

fs setvol

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