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System Administration Commands                      mkfs_udfs(1M)



NAME
     mkfs_udfs - construct a udfs file system

SYNOPSIS
     mkfs -F udfs [generic_options] [-o specific_options] raw_device_file
          [size]


DESCRIPTION
     This  is  the  universal  disk  format  file  system  (udfs)
     -specific module of the mkfs command. mkfs constructs a udfs
     file system with a root directory.

OPTIONS
     See mkfs(1M) for the list of supported generic_options.


     The following options are supported:

     -o specific_options    Specify   a   udfs-specific   option.
                            Specify  udfs  file  system  specific
                            options  in  a  comma-separated  list
                            with   no   intervening   spaces.  If
                            invalid  options  are  specified,   a
                            warning  message  is  printed and the
                            invalid options are ignored.

                            The  following  specific_options  are
                            available:

                            N               Print the file system
                                            parameters    without
                                            actually creating the
                                            file system.


                            label=string    Specify the label  to
                                            be  written  into the
                                            volume header  struc-
                                            tures. Specify string
                                            as the  name  of  the
                                            label.  If  string is
                                            not   specified,    a
                                            default   string   is
                                            generated in the form
                                            of *NoLabel*.



OPERANDS
     The following operands are supported:




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     raw_device_file     Specify the disk partition on  which  to
                        write.


     size               Specify the number of 512-byte blocks  in
                        the file system.


ATTRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:



     ____________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Availability                | system/file-system/udfs     |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|


SEE ALSO
     fsck(1M),mkfs(1M), attributes(5)

DIAGNOSTICS
       not currently a valid file system




     The specified device does not contain a valid udfs file sys-
     tem.

       Invalid size: larger than the partition size




     Number of blocks given as parameter to create the file  sys-
     tem is larger than the size of the device specified.

       is mounted can't mkfs




     Device is in use, cannot create file system when the  device
     is in use.

       preposterous size





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     Negative size parameter provided is invalid.

       sector size must be between 512, 8192 bytes




     Sector size given is not in the valid range.

       Volume integrity sequence descriptors too long
       File set descriptor too long.




     Not enough space to create volume integrity sequence or file
     set descriptor.

       mkfs: argument out of range




     One of the arguments is out of range.

       mkfs: bad numeric arg




     One of the arguments is potentially a bad numeric.

NOTES
     You can use lofiadm to create a file that appears to a  mkfs
     command  (for  example, mkfs_pcfs or mkfs_ufs) as a raw dev-
     ice. You can then use a mkfs command to create a file system
     on  that  device. See lofiadm(1M) for examples of creating a
     UFS and a PC (FAT)  file  system  on  a  device  created  by
     lofiadm.
















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