Appendix A. Volume Management

Volume management automates the mounting of CD-ROMs and diskettes; users no longer need to have superuser permissions to mount a CD-ROM or a diskette.

Volume management provides users with a standard interface for dealing with diskettes and CD-ROMs. Starting with the Solaris 8 release, volume management also manages DVD-ROMs, Iomega Universal Serial Bus (USB) Zip, and Iomega Jaz Drives.


Volume management provides three major benefits.

  • Automatically mounting diskettes, CDs, DVD-ROMs, Zip, and Jaz disks simplifies their use.

  • Users can access the media without having to become superuser.

  • Users on the network can gain automatic access to the media mounted on remote systems.

With volume management, you mount devices automatically with the following steps.

  1. Insert media.

  2. For diskettes, the volcheck command.

  3. Work with files on media.

  4. Eject media.

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