4.1.0 HP PolyServe Software command reference guide (T5392-96071, October 2010)

psfsformat.exe – create a PSFS filesystem
Synopsis
bin\psfsformat [-fq] [-l <label>] [--reuse] [-o option ...]
[-o option ...] <device>
Description
The psfsformat command can be used to create a PSFS filesystem on the specified
device.
The device can be specified in several ways:
• By the drive letter, such as X:
• By the mount point (junction), such as C:\san\vol2
• By the psd or psv name, such as psd2p2 or psv3
The options are:
-f
The -f option (format) can be used if Matrix Server is not running or the disk is
not imported. Before using this option, be sure that the volume is not in use on
another node. The format operation will take place even if the volume is in use.
-q
Suppress progress messages.
-l label
The label for the filesystem.
--reuse
Reuse a psd device. If you will be creating a filesystem on a psd device that was
once part of a dynamic volume, the -reuse option must be used to tell the
command to reuse the device. Without this option, the attempt to create the
filesystem will fail because the device contains a volume signature.
The -o option has the following parameters:
blocksize=#
Specify the block size (either 4096 or 8192) for the filesystem.
disable-fzbm
Create the filesystem without Full Zone Bit Maps (FZBMs). The FZBM on-disk
filesystem format reduces the amount of data that the filesystem needs to read
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