Veritas 4.1 Installation Guide (HP-UX 11i v3, February 2007)

Invoke Veritas Enterprise Administrator (VEA) from the link provided on the right navigation
bar of the “Disk and File System Tools” Screen as shown below:
NOTE: You must have an X-client running on your system to invoke VEA. You can create and
administer VxVM and VxFS once you have logged into VEA. See “Veritas Enterprise Administrator
(VEA) Getting Started Guide”, for more information on using VEA.
Setting up and managing VxFS 4.1
The following sections discuss the various operations that can be done on a VxFS file system.
Creating a VxFS File System
Create a file system:
# newfs -F vxfs <character_device>
See newfs_vxfs (1M), for detailed description of the supported options.
The newfs command builds a vxfs file system by invoking mkfs.
Identifying File System Type
Determine the file system type:
# /usr/sbin/fstyp -v special
See fstyp (1M), for detailed description of the supported options.
Converting a File System to VxFS
Convert a HFS file system to a VxFS file system:
# /sbin/fs/vxfs/vxfsconvert [-l logsize] [-s size] [-efnNvyY] special
See vxfsconvert (1M), for detailed description of the supported options.
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