VERITAS File System 4.1 Administrator's Guide

VERITAS File System Quick Reference
Veritas File System Quick Reference
Appendix A186
Creating a File System
The mkfs command creates a VxFS file system by writing to a special character device
file.The special character device is a raw disk device or a VERITAS Volume Manager (VxVM)
volume. mkfs builds a file system with a root directory and a lost+found directory.
vxfs_vol_encapsulate _bias5 Encapsulates a volume within a multi-volume file
system.
vxfs_vol_enumerate5 Returns information about the volumes within a
multi-volume file system.
vxfs_vol_remove5 Removes a volume from a multi-volume file
system.
vxfs_vol_resize5 Resizes a specific volume within a multi-volume
file system.
vxfs_vol_stat5 Returns free space information about a
component volume within a multi-volume file
system.
Section 4 Description
fs_vxfs Format of a VxFS file system volume.
inode_vxfs Format of a VxFS file system inode.
tunefstab VxFS file system tuning parameters table.
Section 7 Description
vxfsio VxFS file system control functions.
1 Functionality available only with VERITAS Quick I/O for Databases feature
3 Functionality available only with the VERITAS Cluster File System product
4 Functionality available only with the VERITAS Quality of Storage Service
option
5 New in VxFS 4.0
Table A-2 (Continued)
Section1 Description