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 sys-
           tem 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  actu-
                 ally creating the file system.

           label=string
                 Specify the label to be written into the  volume
                 header structures. 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:

     raw_device_file
            Specify the disk partition on which to write.

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

ATTRIBUTES

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

     ____________________________________________________________
    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|
    | Availability                | SUNWudf                     |
    |_____________________________|_____________________________|

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

     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.