Veritas File System 5.0 Administrator's Guide (September 2006)
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Section 7 manual pages
DescriptionSection 7
Describes the VxFS file system control functions.vxfsio
Creating a VxFS file system
The mkfs command creates a VxFS file system by writing to a special character
device file. The special character device is a location or character device node of
a particular storage device. 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.
See the mkfs(1M), and mkfs_vxfs(1M) manual pages.
Quick Reference
Creating a VxFS file system
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