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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference
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Solaris™ 8 System Administrator's Reference

by Janice Winsor
September 2000
Beginner content levelBeginner
1312 pages
33h 47m
English
Pearson
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mkfs — Construct a File System

Synopsis

/usr/sbin/mkfs [-F FSType][generic-options][-o
  FSType-specific-options] raw-device-file [operands]

Description

Use the mkfs command to construct a file system on the raw-device-file by calling the specific mkfs module indicated by -F FSType.

Note

You usually create UFS file systems with the newfs(1M) command, which is a friendlier version of mkfs.

generic-options are independent of file-system type. FSType-specific-options is a comma-separated list of keyword=value pairs (with no intervening spaces), that are FSType-specific. raw-device-file specifies the disk partition on which to write the file system. It is required and must be the first argument following the specific-options (if any). Operands are ...

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