Monitoring file systems


To help you monitor statistics for your file systems, such as storage allocation and i-node usage, MainView for Linux — Servers offers the file systems views. This lists the file systems views.

View

Description

FSLFLNM

displays the full file name or directory for a file

The full file name can be up to 1024 bytes.

FSLINFOR

displays a mounted file system

This view includes the following information:

  • mount point directory
  • type of file system
  • amount of space in the file system that is used
  • mount parameters

FSLEXEC

 execute file

FSLMANL

displays a list of man pages from the /opt/bmc/mml/whatis file

Position the cursor under a Linux man command and press Enter to display the FSLMAN
view that contains additional information about the selected Linux man command.

FSLMNTR

displays mounted file systems usage and space usage statistics

Use the FSLMNT view to monitor mounted file systems during a specified interval.

FSLMNTPR

displays the full mount point for a file system

FSLSPACE

 displays a detailed directory listing for a directory or a detailed file listing for a file

FSLTEST

displays the output from /opt/bmc/mml/mmldtest script

FSLFBIG

lists the largest 50 files of the file system sorted by size

This view is useful to identify file space usage problems.

FSLFOPEN

displays the open files in a directory.

These files have been opened by a process.

FLLIST

 browse file contents

FLLISTH

 browse file contents (hexidecimal format)

This section details some basic functions you can perform, useful information, and sample views from a few frequently used file system views. The following views are detailed in this section:

  • FSLMNTR
  • FSLSPACE

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