Maintenance 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 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
                system.

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

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Maintenance Commands                                mkfs_udfs(1M)

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    |       ATTRIBUTE TYPE        |       ATTRIBUTE VALUE       |
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    | Availability                | SUNWudf                     |
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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.

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