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Managing the AMASS File System
6-00028-01 Rev A Command Reference 3-163
Step 7. To further prepare the volume so AMASS can read
or write to it, use the commands listed in the
following table.
Attributes Within Volume Groups
Each volume’s attributes within a numerical volume group must
be uniform. For example, if the first volume in a numerical
volume group has been formatted with compression ON and a
block size of 64 KB, all the volumes in that volume group will
have these identical attributes.
If you reassign media from one volume group to another
volume group (with the volgroup -f option), AMASS makes
sure the media attributes from the first volume group match the
WARNING, volformat will overwrite the
entire volume
DO NOT FORMAT volumes which have good
files on them
You cannot format active volumes
Do you want to continue?
[y - n] y
The following volumes will be formatted:
33
1 volume(s) to be formatted?
[y - n] y
volformat: format of volume 33 started
volformat: format of volume 33 complete
volformat: completed formatting all
volumes
Command Description
volstat Mark the volume Active in the
Database
Active allows AMASS to read and
write to media