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.Dd December 10, 2007
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.Dt NEWFS 8
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm newfs
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.Nd construct a new file system
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Op Fl FINZ
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.Op Fl a Ar maxcontig
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Incorporate the enhanced ffs_dirpref() by Grigoriy Orlov, as found in
FreeBSD (three commits; the initial work, man page updates, and a fix
to ffs_reload()), with the following differences:
- Be consistent between newfs(8) and tunefs(8) as to the options which
set and control the tuning parameters for this work (avgfilesize & avgfpdir)
- Use u_int16_t instead of u_int8_t to keep track of the number of
contiguous directories (suggested by Chuck Silvers)
- Work within our FFS_EI framework
- Ensure that fs->fs_maxclusters and fs->fs_contigdirs don't point to
the same area of memory
The new algorithm has a marked performance increase, especially when
performing tasks such as untarring pkgsrc.tar.gz, etc.
The original FreeBSD commit messages are attached:
=====
mckusick 2001/04/10 01:39:00 PDT
Directory layout preference improvements from Grigoriy Orlov <gluk@ptci.ru>.
His description of the problem and solution follow. My own tests show
speedups on typical filesystem intensive workloads of 5% to 12% which
is very impressive considering the small amount of code change involved.
------
One day I noticed that some file operations run much faster on
small file systems then on big ones. I've looked at the ffs
algorithms, thought about them, and redesigned the dirpref algorithm.
First I want to describe the results of my tests. These results are old
and I have improved the algorithm after these tests were done. Nevertheless
they show how big the perfomance speedup may be. I have done two file/directory
intensive tests on a two OpenBSD systems with old and new dirpref algorithm.
The first test is "tar -xzf ports.tar.gz", the second is "rm -rf ports".
The ports.tar.gz file is the ports collection from the OpenBSD 2.8 release.
It contains 6596 directories and 13868 files. The test systems are:
1. Celeron-450, 128Mb, two IDE drives, the system at wd0, file system for
test is at wd1. Size of test file system is 8 Gb, number of cg=991,
size of cg is 8m, block size = 8k, fragment size = 1k OpenBSD-current
from Dec 2000 with BUFCACHEPERCENT=35
2. PIII-600, 128Mb, two IBM DTLA-307045 IDE drives at i815e, the system
at wd0, file system for test is at wd1. Size of test file system is 40 Gb,
number of cg=5324, size of cg is 8m, block size = 8k, fragment size = 1k
OpenBSD-current from Dec 2000 with BUFCACHEPERCENT=50
You can get more info about the test systems and methods at:
http://www.ptci.ru/gluk/dirpref/old/dirpref.html
Test Results
tar -xzf ports.tar.gz rm -rf ports
mode old dirpref new dirpref speedup old dirprefnew dirpref speedup
First system
normal 667 472 1.41 477 331 1.44
async 285 144 1.98 130 14 9.29
sync 768 616 1.25 477 334 1.43
softdep 413 252 1.64 241 38 6.34
Second system
normal 329 81 4.06 263.5 93.5 2.81
async 302 25.7 11.75 112 2.26 49.56
sync 281 57.0 4.93 263 90.5 2.9
softdep 341 40.6 8.4 284 4.76 59.66
"old dirpref" and "new dirpref" columns give a test time in seconds.
speedup - speed increasement in times, ie. old dirpref / new dirpref.
------
Algorithm description
The old dirpref algorithm is described in comments:
/*
* Find a cylinder to place a directory.
*
* The policy implemented by this algorithm is to select from
* among those cylinder groups with above the average number of
* free inodes, the one with the smallest number of directories.
*/
A new directory is allocated in a different cylinder groups than its
parent directory resulting in a directory tree that is spreaded across
all the cylinder groups. This spreading out results in a non-optimal
access to the directories and files. When we have a small filesystem
it is not a problem but when the filesystem is big then perfomance
degradation becomes very apparent.
What I mean by a big file system ?
1. A big filesystem is a filesystem which occupy 20-30 or more percent
of total drive space, i.e. first and last cylinder are physically
located relatively far from each other.
2. It has a relatively large number of cylinder groups, for example
more cylinder groups than 50% of the buffers in the buffer cache.
The first results in long access times, while the second results in
many buffers being used by metadata operations. Such operations use
cylinder group blocks and on-disk inode blocks. The cylinder group
block (fs->fs_cblkno) contains struct cg, inode and block bit maps.
It is 2k in size for the default filesystem parameters. If new and
parent directories are located in different cylinder groups then the
system performs more input/output operations and uses more buffers.
On filesystems with many cylinder groups, lots of cache buffers are
used for metadata operations.
My solution for this problem is very simple. I allocate many directories
in one cylinder group. I also do some things, so that the new allocation
method does not cause excessive fragmentation and all directory inodes
will not be located at a location far from its file's inodes and data.
The algorithm is:
/*
* Find a cylinder group to place a directory.
*
* The policy implemented by this algorithm is to allocate a
* directory inode in the same cylinder group as its parent
* directory, but also to reserve space for its files inodes
* and data. Restrict the number of directories which may be
* allocated one after another in the same cylinder group
* without intervening allocation of files.
*
* If we allocate a first level directory then force allocation
* in another cylinder group.
*/
My early versions of dirpref give me a good results for a wide range of
file operations and different filesystem capacities except one case:
those applications that create their entire directory structure first
and only later fill this structure with files.
My solution for such and similar cases is to limit a number of
directories which may be created one after another in the same cylinder
group without intervening file creations. For this purpose, I allocate
an array of counters at mount time. This array is linked to the superblock
fs->fs_contigdirs[cg]. Each time a directory is created the counter
increases and each time a file is created the counter decreases. A 60Gb
filesystem with 8mb/cg requires 10kb of memory for the counters array.
The maxcontigdirs is a maximum number of directories which may be created
without an intervening file creation. I found in my tests that the best
performance occurs when I restrict the number of directories in one cylinder
group such that all its files may be located in the same cylinder group.
There may be some deterioration in performance if all the file inodes
are in the same cylinder group as its containing directory, but their
data partially resides in a different cylinder group. The maxcontigdirs
value is calculated to try to prevent this condition. Since there is
no way to know how many files and directories will be allocated later
I added two optimization parameters in superblock/tunefs. They are:
int32_t fs_avgfilesize; /* expected average file size */
int32_t fs_avgfpdir; /* expected # of files per directory */
These parameters have reasonable defaults but may be tweeked for special
uses of a filesystem. They are only necessary in rare cases like better
tuning a filesystem being used to store a squid cache.
I have been using this algorithm for about 3 months. I have done
a lot of testing on filesystems with different capacities, average
filesize, average number of files per directory, and so on. I think
this algorithm has no negative impact on filesystem perfomance. It
works better than the default one in all cases. The new dirpref
will greatly improve untarring/removing/coping of big directories,
decrease load on cvs servers and much more. The new dirpref doesn't
speedup a compilation process, but also doesn't slow it down.
Obtained from: Grigoriy Orlov <gluk@ptci.ru>
=====
=====
iedowse 2001/04/23 17:37:17 PDT
Pre-dirpref versions of fsck may zero out the new superblock fields
fs_contigdirs, fs_avgfilesize and fs_avgfpdir. This could cause
panics if these fields were zeroed while a filesystem was mounted
read-only, and then remounted read-write.
Add code to ffs_reload() which copies the fs_contigdirs pointer
from the previous superblock, and reinitialises fs_avgf* if necessary.
Reviewed by: mckusick
=====
=====
nik 2001/04/10 03:36:44 PDT
Add information about the new options to newfs and tunefs which set the
expected average file size and number of files per directory. Could do
with some fleshing out.
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2001-09-06 06:16:00 +04:00
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.Op Fl g Ar avgfilesize
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.Op Fl h Ar avgfpdir
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.Op Fl m Ar free-space
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2003-09-11 16:19:44 +04:00
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.Op Fl n Ar inodes
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2003-04-03 18:50:35 +04:00
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.Op Fl O Ar filesystem-format
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1994-06-08 23:27:32 +04:00
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.Op Fl o Ar optimization
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2003-04-03 18:50:35 +04:00
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.Op Fl S Ar sector-size
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.Op Fl s Ar size
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.Op Fl T Ar disk-type
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2002-09-29 00:11:05 +04:00
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2006-01-15 22:49:25 +03:00
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1993-03-21 12:45:37 +03:00
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.Ar special
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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1997-09-15 10:23:03 +04:00
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.Nm
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is used to initialize and clear file systems before first use.
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1998-04-29 13:49:10 +04:00
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Before running
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.Nm
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1998-04-29 13:49:10 +04:00
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the disk must be labeled using
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.Xr disklabel 8 .
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.Nm
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1993-03-21 12:45:37 +03:00
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builds a file system on the specified special device
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basing its defaults on the information in the disk label.
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Typically the defaults are reasonable, however
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.Nm
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has numerous options to allow the defaults to be selectively overridden.
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Options with numeric arguments may contain an optional (case-insensitive)
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suffix:
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Bytes; causes no modification.
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Mega; multiply the argument by 1048576
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The following options define the general layout policies.
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.It Fl a Ar maxcontig
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This sets the obsolete maxcontig parameter.
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.It Fl B Ar byte-order
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Specify the metadata byte order of the file system to be created.
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byte order.
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.It Fl b Ar block-size
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The block size of the file system, in bytes.
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It must be a power of two.
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The smallest allowable size is 4096 bytes.
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allocate out of a cylinder group before it is forced to begin
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allocating blocks from another cylinder group.
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.Xr tunefs 8
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for more details on how to set this option.
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Create a file system image in
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No attempts to use or update the disk label will be made.
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The fragment size of the file system in bytes.
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ratio is 8:1.
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and may produce unpredictable results.
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.Ar frag-size
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2 KB
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.El
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Incorporate the enhanced ffs_dirpref() by Grigoriy Orlov, as found in
FreeBSD (three commits; the initial work, man page updates, and a fix
to ffs_reload()), with the following differences:
- Be consistent between newfs(8) and tunefs(8) as to the options which
set and control the tuning parameters for this work (avgfilesize & avgfpdir)
- Use u_int16_t instead of u_int8_t to keep track of the number of
contiguous directories (suggested by Chuck Silvers)
- Work within our FFS_EI framework
- Ensure that fs->fs_maxclusters and fs->fs_contigdirs don't point to
the same area of memory
The new algorithm has a marked performance increase, especially when
performing tasks such as untarring pkgsrc.tar.gz, etc.
The original FreeBSD commit messages are attached:
=====
mckusick 2001/04/10 01:39:00 PDT
Directory layout preference improvements from Grigoriy Orlov <gluk@ptci.ru>.
His description of the problem and solution follow. My own tests show
speedups on typical filesystem intensive workloads of 5% to 12% which
is very impressive considering the small amount of code change involved.
------
One day I noticed that some file operations run much faster on
small file systems then on big ones. I've looked at the ffs
algorithms, thought about them, and redesigned the dirpref algorithm.
First I want to describe the results of my tests. These results are old
and I have improved the algorithm after these tests were done. Nevertheless
they show how big the perfomance speedup may be. I have done two file/directory
intensive tests on a two OpenBSD systems with old and new dirpref algorithm.
The first test is "tar -xzf ports.tar.gz", the second is "rm -rf ports".
The ports.tar.gz file is the ports collection from the OpenBSD 2.8 release.
It contains 6596 directories and 13868 files. The test systems are:
1. Celeron-450, 128Mb, two IDE drives, the system at wd0, file system for
test is at wd1. Size of test file system is 8 Gb, number of cg=991,
size of cg is 8m, block size = 8k, fragment size = 1k OpenBSD-current
from Dec 2000 with BUFCACHEPERCENT=35
2. PIII-600, 128Mb, two IBM DTLA-307045 IDE drives at i815e, the system
at wd0, file system for test is at wd1. Size of test file system is 40 Gb,
number of cg=5324, size of cg is 8m, block size = 8k, fragment size = 1k
OpenBSD-current from Dec 2000 with BUFCACHEPERCENT=50
You can get more info about the test systems and methods at:
http://www.ptci.ru/gluk/dirpref/old/dirpref.html
Test Results
tar -xzf ports.tar.gz rm -rf ports
mode old dirpref new dirpref speedup old dirprefnew dirpref speedup
First system
normal 667 472 1.41 477 331 1.44
async 285 144 1.98 130 14 9.29
sync 768 616 1.25 477 334 1.43
softdep 413 252 1.64 241 38 6.34
Second system
normal 329 81 4.06 263.5 93.5 2.81
async 302 25.7 11.75 112 2.26 49.56
sync 281 57.0 4.93 263 90.5 2.9
softdep 341 40.6 8.4 284 4.76 59.66
"old dirpref" and "new dirpref" columns give a test time in seconds.
speedup - speed increasement in times, ie. old dirpref / new dirpref.
------
Algorithm description
The old dirpref algorithm is described in comments:
/*
* Find a cylinder to place a directory.
*
* The policy implemented by this algorithm is to select from
* among those cylinder groups with above the average number of
* free inodes, the one with the smallest number of directories.
*/
A new directory is allocated in a different cylinder groups than its
parent directory resulting in a directory tree that is spreaded across
all the cylinder groups. This spreading out results in a non-optimal
access to the directories and files. When we have a small filesystem
it is not a problem but when the filesystem is big then perfomance
degradation becomes very apparent.
What I mean by a big file system ?
1. A big filesystem is a filesystem which occupy 20-30 or more percent
of total drive space, i.e. first and last cylinder are physically
located relatively far from each other.
2. It has a relatively large number of cylinder groups, for example
more cylinder groups than 50% of the buffers in the buffer cache.
The first results in long access times, while the second results in
many buffers being used by metadata operations. Such operations use
cylinder group blocks and on-disk inode blocks. The cylinder group
block (fs->fs_cblkno) contains struct cg, inode and block bit maps.
It is 2k in size for the default filesystem parameters. If new and
parent directories are located in different cylinder groups then the
system performs more input/output operations and uses more buffers.
On filesystems with many cylinder groups, lots of cache buffers are
used for metadata operations.
My solution for this problem is very simple. I allocate many directories
in one cylinder group. I also do some things, so that the new allocation
method does not cause excessive fragmentation and all directory inodes
will not be located at a location far from its file's inodes and data.
The algorithm is:
/*
* Find a cylinder group to place a directory.
*
* The policy implemented by this algorithm is to allocate a
* directory inode in the same cylinder group as its parent
* directory, but also to reserve space for its files inodes
* and data. Restrict the number of directories which may be
* allocated one after another in the same cylinder group
* without intervening allocation of files.
*
* If we allocate a first level directory then force allocation
* in another cylinder group.
*/
My early versions of dirpref give me a good results for a wide range of
file operations and different filesystem capacities except one case:
those applications that create their entire directory structure first
and only later fill this structure with files.
My solution for such and similar cases is to limit a number of
directories which may be created one after another in the same cylinder
group without intervening file creations. For this purpose, I allocate
an array of counters at mount time. This array is linked to the superblock
fs->fs_contigdirs[cg]. Each time a directory is created the counter
increases and each time a file is created the counter decreases. A 60Gb
filesystem with 8mb/cg requires 10kb of memory for the counters array.
The maxcontigdirs is a maximum number of directories which may be created
without an intervening file creation. I found in my tests that the best
performance occurs when I restrict the number of directories in one cylinder
group such that all its files may be located in the same cylinder group.
There may be some deterioration in performance if all the file inodes
are in the same cylinder group as its containing directory, but their
data partially resides in a different cylinder group. The maxcontigdirs
value is calculated to try to prevent this condition. Since there is
no way to know how many files and directories will be allocated later
I added two optimization parameters in superblock/tunefs. They are:
int32_t fs_avgfilesize; /* expected average file size */
int32_t fs_avgfpdir; /* expected # of files per directory */
These parameters have reasonable defaults but may be tweeked for special
uses of a filesystem. They are only necessary in rare cases like better
tuning a filesystem being used to store a squid cache.
I have been using this algorithm for about 3 months. I have done
a lot of testing on filesystems with different capacities, average
filesize, average number of files per directory, and so on. I think
this algorithm has no negative impact on filesystem perfomance. It
works better than the default one in all cases. The new dirpref
will greatly improve untarring/removing/coping of big directories,
decrease load on cvs servers and much more. The new dirpref doesn't
speedup a compilation process, but also doesn't slow it down.
Obtained from: Grigoriy Orlov <gluk@ptci.ru>
=====
=====
iedowse 2001/04/23 17:37:17 PDT
Pre-dirpref versions of fsck may zero out the new superblock fields
fs_contigdirs, fs_avgfilesize and fs_avgfpdir. This could cause
panics if these fields were zeroed while a filesystem was mounted
read-only, and then remounted read-write.
Add code to ffs_reload() which copies the fs_contigdirs pointer
from the previous superblock, and reinitialises fs_avgf* if necessary.
Reviewed by: mckusick
=====
=====
nik 2001/04/10 03:36:44 PDT
Add information about the new options to newfs and tunefs which set the
expected average file size and number of files per directory. Could do
with some fleshing out.
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2001-09-06 06:16:00 +04:00
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.It Fl g Ar avgfilesize
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The expected average file size for the file system.
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.It Fl h Ar avgfpdir
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The expected average number of files per directory on the file system.
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.It Fl I
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Do not require that the file system type listed in the disk label is
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.Ql 4.2BSD
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or
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.Ql Apple UFS .
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.It Fl i Ar bytes-per-inode
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This specifies the density of inodes in the file system.
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If fewer inodes are desired, a larger number should be used;
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to create more inodes a smaller number should be given.
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The default is to create an inode for every
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.Pq 4 * Ar frag-size
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bytes of data space:
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.Pp
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.Bl -tag -width "file system size" -compact -offset indent
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.It Sy "file system size"
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.Ar bytes-per-inode
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.It \*[Lt] 20 MB
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2 KB
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.It \*[Lt] 1024 MB
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4 KB
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.It \*[Gt]= 1024 MB
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8 KB
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.El
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2001-07-29 13:55:22 +04:00
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.It Fl m Ar free-space
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The percentage of space reserved from normal users; the minimum free
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space threshold.
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The default value used is 5%.
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See
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.Xr tunefs 8
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for more details on how to set this option.
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.It Fl N
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Causes the file system parameters to be printed out
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without really creating the file system.
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.It Fl n Ar inodes
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This specifies the number of inodes for the filesystem.
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If both
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.Fl i
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and
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.Fl n
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are specified then
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.Fl n
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takes precedence.
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.It Fl O Ar filesystem-format
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Select the filesystem-format
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.Bl -tag -width 3n -offset indent -compact
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.It 0
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4.3BSD; This option is primarily used to build root file systems that can be
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understood by older boot ROMs.
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.It 1
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FFSv1; normal fast-filesystem (default).
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.It 2
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2008-03-08 22:26:46 +03:00
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FFSv2; enhanced fast-filesystem (suited for more than 1 Terabyte capacity,
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2003-04-03 18:50:35 +04:00
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access control lists).
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.El
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2003-08-12 14:29:07 +04:00
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To create an LFS filesystem see
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.Xr newfs_lfs 8 .
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2007-12-10 15:34:49 +03:00
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To create a Linux Ext2 filesystem see
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.Xr newfs_ext2fs 8 .
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2001-07-29 13:55:22 +04:00
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.It Fl o Ar optimization
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Optimization preference; either
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.Dq space
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or
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.Dq time .
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1994-06-08 23:27:32 +04:00
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The file system can either be instructed to try to minimize the time spent
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allocating blocks, or to try to minimize the space fragmentation on the disk.
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If the value of minfree (see above) is less than 5%,
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the default is to optimize for space;
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if the value of minfree is greater than or equal to 5%,
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the default is to optimize for time.
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See
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.Xr tunefs 8
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for more details on how to set this option.
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.It Fl s Ar size
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The size of the file system in sectors.
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An
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.Sq s
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suffix will be interpreted as the number of sectors (the default).
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All other suffixes are interpreted as per other numeric arguments,
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except that the number is converted into sectors by dividing by the
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sector size (as specified by
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.Fl S Ar secsize )
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after suffix interpretation.
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2003-11-01 20:43:03 +03:00
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.Pp
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If no
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.Fl s Ar size
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is specified then the filesystem size defaults to that of the partition, or,
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if
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.Fl F
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is specified, the existing file.
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.Pp
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If
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.Ar size
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is negative the specified size is subtracted from the default size
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(reserving space at the end of the partition).
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.It Fl T Ar disk-type
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Uses information for the specified disk from
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.Pa /etc/disktab
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instead of trying to get the information from the disk label.
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2002-09-29 00:11:05 +04:00
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.It Fl v Ar volname
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2002-10-13 02:42:52 +04:00
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This specifies that an Apple UFS filesystem should be created
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2002-09-29 00:11:05 +04:00
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with the given volume name.
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2006-01-15 22:49:25 +03:00
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.It Fl V Ar verbose
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This controls the amount of information written to stdout:
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.Bl -tag -width 3n -offset indent -compact
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.It 0
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No output
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.It 1
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Overall size and cylinder group details.
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.It 2
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A progress bar (dots ending at right hand margin).
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.It 3
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The first few super-block backup sector numbers are displayed before the
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progress bar.
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.It 4
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All the super-block backup sector numbers are displayed (no progress bar).
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.El
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The default is 3.
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If
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.Fl N
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is specifed
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.Nm
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stops before outputting the progress bar.
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2003-04-03 18:50:35 +04:00
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.It Fl Z
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Pre-zeros the file system image created with
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.Fl F .
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This is necessary if the image is to be used by
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.Xr vnd 4
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(which doesn't support file systems with
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.Sq holes ) .
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1994-06-08 23:27:32 +04:00
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.El
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1993-03-21 12:45:37 +03:00
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.Pp
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2003-04-03 18:50:35 +04:00
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The following option overrides the standard sizes for the disk geometry.
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The default value is taken from the disk label.
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Changing this default is useful only when using
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1997-09-15 10:23:03 +04:00
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.Nm
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1994-06-08 23:27:32 +04:00
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to build a file system whose raw image will eventually be used on a
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different type of disk than the one on which it is initially created
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(for example on a write-once disk).
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2003-04-03 18:50:35 +04:00
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Note that changing this value from its default will make
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1998-04-29 13:49:10 +04:00
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it impossible for
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.Xr fsck_ffs 8
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1997-03-08 16:47:08 +03:00
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to find the alternative superblocks if the standard superblock is lost.
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1994-06-08 23:27:32 +04:00
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.Bl -tag -width Fl
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1993-03-21 12:45:37 +03:00
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.It Fl S Ar sector-size
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The size of a sector in bytes (almost never anything but 512).
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2001-07-29 13:55:22 +04:00
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Defaults to 512.
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1993-03-21 12:45:37 +03:00
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.El
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1999-05-17 00:58:49 +04:00
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.Sh NOTES
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2003-09-03 23:38:04 +04:00
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The file system is created with
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.Sq random
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inode generation numbers to improve NFS security.
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1999-03-17 00:52:34 +03:00
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.Pp
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2001-07-29 13:55:22 +04:00
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The owner and group ids of the root node of the new file system
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1999-03-17 00:52:34 +03:00
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are set to the effective uid and gid of the user initializing
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2001-07-29 13:55:22 +04:00
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the file system.
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1999-05-17 00:58:49 +04:00
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.Pp
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For the
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.Nm
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command to succeed,
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2002-02-20 07:04:39 +03:00
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the disk label should first be updated such that the fstype field for the
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2001-04-03 15:21:57 +04:00
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partition is set to
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2002-09-29 00:11:05 +04:00
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.Ql 4.2BSD
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or
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.Ql Apple UFS ,
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2002-02-20 07:04:39 +03:00
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unless
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.Fl F
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or
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.Fl I
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is used.
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2003-08-12 14:29:07 +04:00
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.Pp
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To create and populate a filesystem image within a file use the
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.Xr makefs 8
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utility.
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2003-11-01 20:43:03 +03:00
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.Pp
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The partition size is found using
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.Xr fstat 2
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not by inspecting the disklabel.
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The block size and fragment size will be written back to the disklabel
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only if the last character of
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.Ar special
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references the same partition as the minor device number.
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2003-11-01 21:38:59 +03:00
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that provide disk like block and character devices.
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1993-03-21 12:45:37 +03:00
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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2003-11-01 20:43:03 +03:00
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.Xr fstat 2 ,
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1993-03-21 12:45:37 +03:00
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.Xr disktab 5 ,
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.Xr fs 5 ,
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.Xr disklabel 8 ,
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.Xr diskpart 8 ,
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2001-11-16 13:11:41 +03:00
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.Xr dumpfs 8 ,
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2001-04-03 15:21:57 +04:00
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.\" .Xr format 8 ,
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1998-05-07 07:40:48 +04:00
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.Xr fsck_ffs 8 ,
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2003-09-03 23:38:04 +04:00
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.\" .Xr fsirand 8 ,
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2003-08-12 14:29:07 +04:00
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.Xr makefs 8 ,
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1994-06-08 23:27:32 +04:00
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.Xr mount 8 ,
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2002-01-04 13:47:47 +03:00
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.Xr mount_mfs 8 ,
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2007-12-10 15:34:49 +03:00
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.Xr newfs_ext2fs 8 ,
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2003-08-12 14:29:07 +04:00
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.Xr newfs_lfs 8 ,
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2005-12-27 17:49:28 +03:00
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.Xr newfs_msdos 8 ,
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2006-02-25 04:56:41 +03:00
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.Xr tunefs 8
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1993-03-21 12:45:37 +03:00
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.Rs
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.%A M. McKusick
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.%A W. Joy
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.%A S. Leffler
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.%A R. Fabry
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.%T A Fast File System for UNIX ,
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.%J ACM Transactions on Computer Systems 2
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.%V 3
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.%P pp 181-197
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.%D August 1984
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.%O (reprinted in the BSD System Manager's Manual)
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.Re
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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command appeared in
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.Bx 4.2 .
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