A VOB appears to you as a directory structure containing
files. Your company might have a dozen or more VOBs, but
you might work in only a few of them. When you want to
work with the files and directories in a VOB you will
change directories into that VOB just as if it were a
standard directory structure.
In fact, VOBs behave like separate filesystems. A VOB must
be mounted on any computer you want to use to work with the
VOB's files. You may not have all the VOBs mounted on
your computer. If your computer reboots it is possible
that the vobs will not be mounted. You can run a simple
command to remount them. The command has no effect if they are
already mounted:
- Mount All VOBs
-
cleartool mount -all
NT Note:
You may also mount a VOB from the File Manager:
ClearCase->Mount VOB...
This will summon a VOB Tag browser to let you choose the VOB to mount.
Each VOB appears in the filesystem at a different location,
but they may all appear within the same directory (or
logical drive on NT).
- For example, if you had separate
VOBs to store products called flint and stone
they might appear as:
-
/vobs/flint
/vobs/stone
- NT Note:
On NT these would appear as:
\flint
\stone
Some commands also accept a list of one or more VOBs to
restrict their operation. For example:
Show all checkouts in the
flint and stone VOBs:
cleartool lscheckout -all /vobs/flint /vobs/stone
Show all checkouts in all VOBs for the current view:
cleartool lscheckout -avobs