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MAKEDEV(8) -- makes system special files
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The MAKEDEV shell script is normally used to install special files. It resides in the /dev directory, the normal location of special files. Arguments to MAKEDEV are usually of the form device-name? wh... |
makekey(8) -- generate encryption key
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The makekey command improves the usefulness of encryption schemes depending on a key by increasing the amount of time required to search the key space. It reads 10 bytes from its standard input, and w... |
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makemap(8) -- Create database maps for sendmail
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The makemap command creates the database maps used by the keyed map lookups in sendmail(8). It reads input from the standard input and outputs them to the indicated mapname. The makemap command handle... |
map-mbone(8) -- Multicast connection mapper
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The map-mbone program displays information about all multicast routers that are reachable from the multicast starting_router. If not specified on the command line, the default multicast starting_route... |
memx(8) -- memory exerciser
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The memx memory exerciser spawns processes to exercise memory by writing and reading three patterns: 1's and 0's, 0's and 1's, and a random pattern. You specify the number of processes to spawn an... |
mfs(8) -- Constructs a new UFS file system
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The newfs command creates a new UFS file system on the specified special-device of type disk-type. Note The newfs command cannot be used to create Advanced File System (AdvFS) domains. Instead, use th... |
migrate(8) -- Move a file or file pages to another volume in an AdvFS file domain
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The migrate utility moves the specified simple (unstriped) file to another volume in the same file domain. The utility also moves pages of a simple file or pages of a striped file segment to another v... |
mkcdsl(8) -- Make a context-dependent symbolic link (CDSL)
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A context-dependent symbolic link (CDSL) is a special form of a symbolic link, described in ln(1), whose target pathname includes a variable ({memb}). The value of {memb} is determined during pathname... |
mkfdmn(8) -- Creates a new AdvFS domain
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The mkfdmn command creates a domain, which is a logical construct containing both physical volumes (disks or disk partitions) and filesets. When you create a domain, you must specify one volume. This ... |
mkfset(8) -- Creates a fileset in an existing AdvFS domain
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The mkfset command creates an AdvFS fileset within an existing domain. You can have more than one fileset in a domain unless that fileset is enabled for the data management API (DMAPI), then only one ... |
mkisofs(8) -- Creates a hybrid ISO9660/JOLIET/HFS filesystem with optional Rock Ridge attributes.
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Use the mkisofs pre-mastering program to generate an ISO9660/JOLIET/HFS hybrid filesystem. The Hierarchical File System (HFS) is the native file system used on Macintosh computers. The image of this f... |
mklost+found(8) -- Makes a lost+found directory for fsck
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The mklost+found command creates a lost+found directory in the current directory. mklost+found also creates (and then removes) a number of empty files so that there will be empty slots for fsck. The f... |
mknod(8) -- Creates a special file
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The mknod command makes a directory entry. The first argument is the name of the special device file. Select a name that is descriptive of the device. The mknod command has two forms. In the first for... |
mkpasswd(8) -- Creates a version of the basic user database organized for efficient searches
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The mkpasswd command creates an auxiliary version of the basic user database in a form organized for efficient searches by the getpwuid subroutine and the getpwnam subroutine. The mkpasswd command rea... |
mkproto(8) -- Constructs a prototype file system
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The mkproto command is used to bootstrap a new file system. First a new file system is created using newfs. mkproto is then used to copy files from the old file system into the new file system accordi... |