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rmfdmn(8) System Manager's Manual rmfdmn(8) NAME rmfdmn - removes a file domain SYNOPSIS /sbin/rmfdmn [-f] domain Specifies the name of an existing file domain. FLAGS Turns off the message prompt. DESCRIPTION The rmfdmn utility enables you to remove an unused file domain. Before you can remove a file domain, unmount all filesets and clone filesets from the domain using the umount command. If you try to remove a file domain that has mounted filesets, the system displays an error message indicating that a fileset is mounted. AdvFS will not remove the file domain. For each file domain you will be prompted: rmfdmn accounts_dmn rmfdmn: remove domain accounts_dmn? [yes/no] If you answer n, the file domain remains. If you answer y, it is re- moved. The -f flag is useful for scripts when you do not want to be queried for each file domain. If you choose the -f flag, no message prompt will display. The rmfdmn command will operate as if you responded yes to the prompt. RESTRICTIONS You must be the root user to use this command. To remove a domain, all filesets and clone filesets must be unmounted. You must update the /etc/fdmns directory to delete the file domain en- try for the deleted file domain. The rmfdmn command can leave a partially-removed domain in the /etc/fdmns directory, for example, should there be a system failure during the remove operation. If this happens, the remnants of the re- moved domain are put in the /etc/fdmns directory as a file with a name in this format: rmfdmn.domain_name.processid. If you interrupt the rmfdmn command or there is a system failure during its operation, check the /etc/fdmns directory for domain names in this format and use the rmfdmn command to delete them. However, if a partially-removed domain has been in the /etc/fdmns di- rectory for some time, it can be risky to remove it with the rmfdmn command: the partitions might have been put back into use and deleting them would make them unusable. [The rmfdmn command puts an unused flag in the fstype field of the disk label when it removes disks.] In this case, use the rm -r command to remove the partially-recovered domain. Unlike the rmfdmn command, the rm command does not alter the fstype field of the disk label. EXAMPLES The following example removes the accounts_dmn file domain. In this ex- ample, the credit_fs fileset is mounted on the /mnt3 directory and yes is selected at the verification prompt: # umount /mnt3 # rmfdmn accounts_dmn # rmfdmn: remove domain ac- counts_dmn? [yes/no] # rmfdmn: domain accounts_dmn removed FILES Contains file domain names and devices. RELATED INFORMATION mkfdmn(8), advfs(4), showfdmn(8), mount(8). delim off rmfdmn(8)