VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Oracle Administrator's Guide

Creating a VxFS File System Prerelease 8 September 2005, 8:54am
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Example
To create a VxFS file system that supports files larger than 2GB on the newly created db01
volume:
# /usr/sbin/mkfs -F vxfs -o largefiles,bsize=8192,logsize=2000 \
/dev/vx/rdsk/PRODdg/db01
The -o largefiles specific option allows you to create files larger than 2 GB.
Note Because size is not specified in this example, the size of the file system will be calculated
automatically to be the same size as the volume on which the file system is created.
The mkfs command displays output similar to the following:
version 6 layout
20480 sectors, 10240 blocks of size 1024, log size 1024 blocks
You can now mount the newly created file system. See “Mounting a File System” on page 71.
▼ To add a new file system to an existing volume using the GUI
1. Select the volume to contain the file system.
2. Choose Actions > File System > New File System.
3. Complete the New File System dialog box as follows:
File System Type: Select the file system type from the pull-down menu.
Create Options:
◆ Specify the allocation size and block size if you do not want to use the
default.
◆ To specify whether large files (files greater than or equal to 2 GB) will
be supported, click New File System Details. Select either largefiles
or nolargefiles.
Compress (checkbox):
◆ If your platform supports file compression, then you can select
Compress to compress the files on your file system