Directories; Directory Path - Novell NETWARE 6-DOCUMENTATION Manual

Directories

Directory Path

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Traditional File Services Administration Guide
However, when you spread segments of a volume over several disks, you
should protect the volumes against disk failure by mirroring; otherwise, if a
single disk fails, one or more entire volumes shut down.
You can add segments to a volume, but removing a segment from a volume
destroys the entire volume.
You can increase the size of a traditional volume by adding another hard disk
to the NetWare server, by setting up a NetWare partition on the disk, or by
adding a new NetWare partition to the existing volume as one or more new
volume segments.
A directory is a place within a volume where you can store files or other
directories. A Directory within a directory is called a subdirectory. Directories
can contain any number of files and subdirectories.
This section contains the following topics:
"Directory Path" on page 12
"Fake Root" on page 13
"Directory Map Objects" on page 13
A directory or file is located by its path, which states where the directory or
file is on a volume. A path includes the volume, directory, and any
subdirectories leading to the file. The following figure shows how to specify
a path. (Listing the server is optional.)
Figure 1 Directory Path Conventions
NetWare server \ Volume
Separate volume and directory
with a colon (:).
Separate all others with a slash (\).
If your network uses more than one client operating system, keep in mind the
conventions of the different systems. For example, NetWare allows 255
: Directory \ (Sub)directory \ Filename