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 7 layout
      262144 sectors, 262144 blocks of size 1024, log size 1024 blocks
      largefiles supported
  2. Mount the newly created file system.

      # mount -F vxfs /dev/vx/rdsk/diskgroup/volume /mnt1