AFS-ROOTVOL(8)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay so this is afs-rootvol — it's a section 8 man page (admin/system tools energy 💅) from the Debian GNU/Linux crew.

afs-rootvol — bestie, it generates AND populates root volumes for brand-new AFS cells. two jobs, one icon. ✨

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

afs-rootvol [--requirements-met] [--server server-name] [--partition
partition-letter]

that's it, that's the whole vibe check: three little knobs called --requirements-met, --server (which wants a server-name) and --partition (which wants a partition-letter). write it exactly like that, no notes. 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so, lowkey, this script sets up an AFS cell's root volumes. that's its whole main character moment. 🌈

it assumes you already have a fileserver and database servers up and running — like, it is not here to build those for you, it is here to do the fun part. fr fr.

and the fileserver? it should have an empty root.afs. yes, empty. that's the vibe it's expecting to walk into. 🎀

then it goes to work and creates:

• root.cell
• user
• and service

...and populates root.afs. slay. it ate. 👑

⚠️ ngl, the empty root.afs thing is not a suggestion, it's the setup it's assuming you did — don't come at it with a root.afs that's already full of stuff.

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💜 AUTHOR 💜

this one was written by Sam Hartman <hartmans@debian.org> — say thank you to the icon who made this possible. 🙈💖

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and that's the whole page, bestie 🧚 — this tea was served up by perl v5.42.3 and it's dated 2026-07-27. go populate some root volumes, you've got this. 💅✨