NetBSD/sbin/newfs_lfs/newfs_lfs.8
perseant 7fa6616468 Address PR 7412: fix newfs_lfs.8 to list all real options for newfs_lfs;
also fix newfs_lfs to get rid of all sorts of useless options that applied
only to newfs_ffs.  Corrected reference to the FFS paper to the reference
to the BSD-LFS paper.
1999-07-15 19:09:40 +00:00

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.\" $NetBSD: newfs_lfs.8,v 1.2 1999/07/15 19:09:41 perseant Exp $
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.\" @(#)newlfs.8 8.1 (Berkeley) 6/19/93
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.Dd July 15, 1999
.Dt NEWFS_LFS 8
.Os BSD 4.4
.Sh NAME
.Nm newfs_lfs
.Nd construct a new LFS file system
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Ar newfs_lfs-options
.Ar special
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
builds a log-structured file system on the specified special
device basing its defaults on the information in the disk label.
(Before running
.Nm
the disk must be labeled using
.Xr disklabel 8 .)
.Pp
The following options define the general layout policies.
.Bl -tag -width Fl
.It Fl B
The logical segment size of the file system in bytes.
.It Fl b Ar block-size
The block size of the file system in bytes.
.It Fl f Ar fragment-size
The fragment size of the file system in bytes.
.It Fl L
Create a log-structured file system (LFS). This is the default, and this
option is provided for compatibility only.
.It Fl m Ar free space \&%
The percentage of space reserved from normal users; the minimum
free space threshold. The default value used is 10%.
See
.Xr tunefs 8
for more details on how to set this option.
.It Fl N
Do not actually create the filesystem.
.It Fl s Ar size
The size of the file system in sectors.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr disktab 5 ,
.\" .Xr fs 5 ,
.Xr dumplfs 8 ,
.Xr disklabel 8 ,
.Xr diskpart 8 ,
.\" .Xr tunefs 8
.Rs
.%A M. Seltzer
.%A K. Bostic
.%A M. McKusick
.%A C. Staelin
.%T "An Implementation of a Log-Structured File System for UNIX"
.%J "Proceedings of the Winter 1993 USENIX Conference"
.%D January 25-29, 1993
.%P pp. 315-331
.Re
.Sh HISTORY
A \fBnewlfs\fR
command appeared in
.Bx 4.4 ,
and was renamed to
.Nm
for
.Nx 1.4.