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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