Receiving Help

There are several different ways to receive help about DFS commands. The following examples summarize the syntax for the different help options:

$ man cm
Displays the reference page for the command suite.

$ man cm_command
Displays the reference page for an individual command. You must use an _ (underscore) to connect the command suite to the command name. Do not use the underscore when issuing the command in DFS.

$ cm help
Displays a list of commands in a command suite.

$ cm help command
Displays the syntax for a single command.

$ cm apropos -topic string
Displays a short description of any commands that match the specified string.

Consult the dfs_intro(8dfs) reference page for complete information about the DFS help facilities.

Cautions
Specific cautionary information is included with individual commands.

Privilege Required
Specific privileges required by each command are listed with individual commands.

Related Information
Commands: cm apropos(8dfs)

cm checkfilesets(8dfs)

cm flush(8dfs)

cm flushfileset(8dfs)

cm getcachesize(8dfs)

cm getdevok(8dfs)

cm getsetuid(8dfs)

cm help(8dfs)

cm lscellinfo(8dfs)

cm lsstores(8dfs)

cm resetstores(8dfs)

cm setcachesize(8dfs)

cm setdevok(8dfs)

cm setsetuid(8dfs)

cm statservers(8dfs)

cm sysname(8dfs)

cm whereis(8dfs)

dfs_intro(8dfs)

dfsd(8dfs)

Files: CacheInfo(4dfs)

CacheItems(4dfs)

FilesetItems(4dfs)

Vn(4dfs)