How to Create a UFS File System

1. Make sure you have met the following prerequisites:

   • The disk must be formatted and divided into slices before you can create UFS file systems on it. See Chapter 28, Disk Management (Overview) for complete information on formatting disks and dividing disks into slices.

   • You need to know the device name of the slice that will contain the file system. See Chapter 29, Administering Disks (Tasks) for information on finding disks and disk slice numbers.

   • If you are re-creating an existing UFS file system, unmount it.

   • You must be superuser.

2. Create the UFS file system.

   # newfs [-N] [-b size] [-i bytes] /dev/rdsk/device-name

   -N	Displays what parameters newfs would pass to mkfs without actually creating the file system. This is a good way to test the newfs command.
   -b size	Specifies the file system block size, either 4096 or 8192 bytes per block. The default is 8192.
   -i bytes	Specifies the number of bytes per inode. The default varies depending on the disk size. See newfs(1M) for more information.
   device-name	Specifies the disk device name on which to create the new file system.

   The system asks for confirmation.

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   Caution -

   Be sure you have specified the correct device name for the slice before performing the next step. If you specify the wrong slice, you will erase its contents when the new file system is created. This might cause the system to panic.

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3. To verify the creation of the UFS file system, check the new file system with the fsck(1M) command.

   # fsck /dev/rdsk/device-name

   device-name

   Specifies the name of the disk device containing the new file system.

   The fsck command checks the consistency of the new file system, reports problems it finds, and prompts you before repairing the problems. See Chapter 39, Checking File System Integrity for more information on fsck.

Example--Creating a UFS File System

The following example creates a UFS file system on /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s7.

# newfs /dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s7
/dev/rdsk/c0t1d0s7:  725760 sectors in 720 cylinders of 14 tracks, 72 sectors
        354.4MB in 45 cyl groups (16 c/g, 7.88MB/g, 3776 i/g)
super-block backups (for fsck -F ufs -o b=#) at:
 32, 16240, 32448, 48656, 64864, 81072, 97280, 113488, 129696, 145904, 162112,
 178320, 194528, 210736, 226944, 243152, 258080, 274288, 290496, 306704,
 322912, 339120, 355328, 371536, 387744, 403952, 420160, 436368, 452576,
 468784, 484992, 501200, 516128, 532336, 548544, 564752, 580960, 597168,
 613376, 629584, 645792, 662000, 678208, 694416, 710624,
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Where to Go From Here

To mount the file system and make it available, go to Chapter 36, Mounting and Unmounting File Systems (Tasks).