DESCRIPTION
The fsirand utility installs random generation numbers on all the inodes for each file system specified on the command line by special. This increases the security of NFS-exported file systems by making it difficult to ‘‘guess’’ filehandles. Note: newfs(8) now does the equivalent of fsirand itself so it is no longer necessary to run fsirand by hand on a new file system. It is only used to re-randomize or report on an existing file system.
The fsirand utility should only be used on an unmounted file system that has been checked with fsck(8) or a file system that is mounted read-only. The fsirand utility may be used on the root file system in single-user mode but the system should be rebooted via ‘‘reboot -n’’ afterwards.
OPTIONS
The available options are as follows:
