Veritas File System 4.1 Administrator's Guide (HP-UX 11i v3, February 2007)

VERITAS File System Quick Reference
Veritas File System Quick Reference
Appendix A170
Creating a File System
The mkfs command creates a VxFS file system by writing to a special character device file.The special
character device is a raw disk device or a VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM) volume. mkfs builds a file
system with a root directory and a lost+found directory.
Before running mkfs, you must create the target device. Refer to your operating system documentation for
more information. If you are using a logical device (such as a VxVM volume), see the VxVM
documentation for instructions on device initialization.
How to Create a File System
To create a file system, use the mkfs command:
mkfs [-F vxfs] [generic_options] [-o specific_options] special [size]
vxfs The file system type.
generic_options Options common to most other file system types.
specific_options Options specific to VxFS.
vxfs_vol_stat
4
Returns free space information about a component
volume within a multi-volume file system.
Section 4 Description
fs_vxfs Format of a VxFS file system volume.
inode_vxfs Format of a VxFS file system inode.
tunefstab VxFS file system tuning parameters table.
Section 7 Description
vxfsio VxFS file system control functions.
1 Functionality available only with VERITAS Quick I/O for Databases feature
2 Functionality available only with the VERITAS Cluster File System product
3 Functionality available only with the VERITAS Quality of Storage Service option
4 New in VxFS 4.0
Table A-2 (Continued)
Section1 Description