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volcheck

A command used to check the accessibility of removable hard media such as a diskette and a removable hard disk.

volume

A named chunk of disk space that can occupy a part of a disk or the whole disk; alternatively, it can span across multiple disks, which are called a disk set.

volume manager

See SVM.

who

A command used to display the users currently logged into a system.

whoami

A command used to display the user name of the user on the current terminal.

World Wide Web

An application on the Internet that involves web browsers and web servers and is based on HTTP. It is so popular that it has become synonymous with the Internet.

zone

See Solaris zone.

zoneadm

A command that can be used from the global zone to install and administer non-global zones.

zoneadmd

The daemon that manages a zone, which includes booting and shutting down in addition to other tasks. If the daemon, is not running for any reason, an invocation of the zoneadm command will start it.

zonecfg

A utility used to set up the zone configuration, which includes creating and modifying the zone configuration.