fs_newalias - Creates a new alias for a cell

       Aliases created with fsnewalias are only temporary and will be lost when the AFS Cache Manager is
       restarted or the client machine is rebooted. In order to make the alias permanent, it must be put into
       the CellAlias file.

       There is no way to remove an alias once created without restarting the AFS Cache Manager.

       Copyright 2007 Jason Edgecombe <jason@rampaginggeek.com>

       This documentation is covered by the BSD License as written in the doc/LICENSE file. This  man  page  was
       written by Jason Edgecombe for OpenAFS.

OpenAFS                                            2025-03-21                                     FS_NEWALIAS(1)

       The fsnewalias command is used when the AFS Cache Manager is in Dynamic Root (-dynroot) mode. It creates
       a symbolic link in /afs from an alias to the full name of the cell. It also creates a symbolic link from
       the alias prepended with "." to the full name of the cell prepended with ".", the convention for access
       to the read/write version of the "root.cell" volume of that cell.

       This command is used to supplement aliases created via the CellAlias configuration file when afsd starts.

       Traditionally, these aliases would be created by the local AFS administrator by creating symbolic links
       in the "root.afs" volume. Such symlinks do not appear when Dynamic Root is enabled because, with Dynamic
       Root, the Cache Manager does not mount or look at the "root.afs" volume. This alias capability is a
       replacement that allows such short names to be created under client control.

       There are two ways to call fsnewalias:

          % fs newalias openafs openafs.org
          % fs newalias -alias openafs -name openafs.org

       Both  of  the  above  examples  create  an  alias "openafs" for the cell "openafs.org". Two links will be
       created in /afs:

          /afs/openafs   ->  /afs/openafs.org
          /afs/.openafs  ->  /afs/.openafs.org

       fs_newalias - Creates a new alias for a cell

-alias <aliasname>
           This is the short name to which the user wants to map the real cell name.

       -name <cellname>
           This is the real cell name.

       -help
           Prints the online help for this command. All other valid options are ignored.

       This command has no output.

       The issuer must be logged in as the local superuser root.

afsd(8), CellAlias(5), fs_listaliases(1)

fsnewalias [-alias] <aliasname>
           [-name] <cellname> [-help]