PVFS2-TOUCH(1)

✨ PVFS2-TOUCH ✨

okay so bestie, this is pvfs2-touch, a General Commands Manual page, and it's literally the moment you've been waiting for: making empty files on your PVFS2 setup 🎀

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🌸 NAME 🌸

pvfs2-touch – create files. that's it, that's the whole job 💅

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

pvfs2-touch [-lr] pvfs2_filename[s]

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

The pvfs2-touch utility creates empty files. periodt. 🫶

not me being the one to tell you this but… it does not update modification and access times on extant files the way touch(1) does. so if that's the vibe you're looking for, this is not that, bestie 😭

The options are as follows:

• -l — use list layout. iconic.
• -r — use random layout. also iconic.

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🌈 ENVIRONMENT 🌈

• PVFS2_DEBUGFILE — if you set this to the path of a local file, all that debug output gets redirected into it. no more chaos in your terminal, we love a contained mess 💜
• PVFS2_DEBUGMASK — sets the OrangeFS debug mask. the possible masks are documented in pvfs2-set-debugmask(1), so go peek there if you wanna know your options 👑
• PVFS2TAB_FILE — if set, this is the full pathname for an alternate pvfs2tab file. yes, a whole alternate one 🧚

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🍓 FILES 🍓

• /etc/pvfs2tab

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⭐ EXAMPLES ⭐

Wanna create the empty file /mnt/foo? say less:

pvfs2-touch /mnt/foo

slay. done. go off 💅✨

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💀 BUGS 💀

Please submit bug reports to devel@lists.orangefs.org 🙈 — they're genuinely nice, no cap.

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

touch(1), pvfs2-viewdist(1), pvfs2-write(1), pvfs2tab(5)

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🌸 this one's from the General Commands Manual, version PVFS2-TOUCH(1), dated 2017-08-11 — she's a lil vintage but she ate fr fr 💖🦋