The VERIFY command validates information entered into the current Global Directory. It checks the name-to-region mappings to ensure all names map to a region. The VERIFY command checks region-to-segment mappings to ensure each region maps to a segment, each segment maps to only one region, and the segment maps to a UNIX file. The EXIT command implicitly performs a VERIFY -ALL.

The format of the VERIFY command is:

V[ERIFY]
V[ERIFY] -N[AME] [name-space]
V[ERIFY] -R[EGION] [region-name]
V[ERIFY] -S[EGMENT] [segment-name]
V[ERIFY] -M[AP]
V[ERIFY] -T[EMPLATE]
V[ERIFY] -A[LL]

The object-type is optional. -MAP, -TEMPLATE, and -ALL are special qualifiers used as follows:

VERIFY with no qualifier, VERIFY -MAP, and VERIFY -ALL each check all current information.

Example:

GDE> verify -region regis

This command verifies the region regis.