FS_WHEREIS(1)

💖 fs_whereis — bestie, let's go find your files 💖

okay so this is a page from the AFS Command Reference, and it's fs_whereis(1). The name is literally "where is" — it tells you which file server machine is holding your stuff. That's it. That's the whole vibe. 🌸

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✨ NAME ✨

fs_whereis — reports each file server housing a file or directory 🦋

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

fs whereis [-path <dir/file path>+] [-help]

fs whe [-p <dir/file path>+] [-h]

yes bestie, whe is the short version, she's efficient, she's booked and busy 💅

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💜 DESCRIPTION 💜

So the fs whereis command is giving main character energy and returning the name of each file server machine that houses the volume containing each directory or file you named with the -path argument.

That's it. That's the whole job. You point at a file, she points at the server. iconic. 👑

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🌈 OPTIONS 🌈

• -path <dir/file path>+ — names each AFS file or directory you want the host file server machine for. Here's the tea tho: partial pathnames are interpreted relative to the current working directory, and if you just… don't pass this argument at all, the current working directory is also the default value. so she'll just tell you about where you already are. no cap. 💖
• -help — prints the online help for this command. and the way that all other valid options are ignored when you use this? yeah. she said "help is help, everything else can wait." 🙈

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🌸 OUTPUT 🌸

The output includes a line for each directory or file you specified. Each one names the file server machine on which the volume that houses the specified directory or file resides.

And if you see a list of multiple machines? oh that's not a glitch bestie, that means the directory or file is in a replicated volume. multiple servers holding the same thing, it's giving ✨redundancy✨.

Machine names usually have a suffix indicating their cell membership. If the cell is not clear to you, use the fs whichcell command to display the cell in which the directory or file resides. And if you want to display the cell membership of the local machine, use fs wscell. iykyk 🫶

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⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

okay so this example is showing that the volume housing the directory /afs/example.com is replicated on both "fs1.example.com" and "fs3.example.com" — look at her, two servers, thriving:

% fs whereis -path /afs/example.com
File /afs/example.com is on hosts fs1.example.com fs3.example.com

ate. no crumbs. 🔥

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👑 PRIVILEGE REQUIRED 👑

None. literally none. she's free. she's for everyone. we love an accessible queen. 🎀

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🧚 SEE ALSO 🧚

• fs_whichcell(1)
• fs_wscell(1)

go read those too, they're the sister pages, the trio is complete 💜

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💌 COPYRIGHT 💌

IBM Corporation 2000. <http://www.ibm.com/> All Rights Reserved.

This documentation is covered by the IBM Public License Version 1.0. It was converted from HTML to POD by software written by Chas Williams and Russ Allbery, based on work by Alf Wachsmann and Elizabeth Cassell. shoutout to the whole crew, legends only 🌟

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and that's the whole page bestie!! this one came from OpenAFS, dated 2026-07-27, and it's FS_WHEREIS(1) — go find your servers, mwah 💅💖