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Example of creating a file system

The following example creates a VxFS file system of 12288 sectors in size on a VxVM volume.

 To create a VxFS file system

  1. Create the file system:

# mkfs -F vxfs /dev/vx/rdsk/diskgroup/volume 12288

version 6 layout

262144 sectors, 262144 blocks of size 1024,

log size 1024 blocks

largefiles supported

  1. Mount the newly created file system.