NEWFS_V7FS(8) BSD System Manager's Manual NEWFS_V7FS(8)NAMEnewfs_v7fs — construct a new 7th Edition(V7) File System
SYNOPSISnewfs_v7fs [-FZ] [-B byte-order] [-n inodes] [-s sectors] [-V verbose]
special
DESCRIPTIONnewfs_v7fs builds a 7th Edition(V7) file system on the specified special.
If it is a device, the size information will be taken from the disk label
and before running newfs_v7fs the disk must be labeled using
disklabel(8); the proper fstype is “Version 7”. Otherwise, the size must
be specified on the command line. V7 filesystem's block size and sector
size are 512 byte. Disk address limits are 24 bit.
The following arguments are supported:
-B byte-order Specify the metadata byte order of the file system to be
created. Valid byte orders are ‘be’, ‘le’, and ‘pdp’.
If no byte order is specified, the file system is cre‐
ated in host byte order.
-F Create file system to a regular file (needs the -s
option).
-n inodes This specifies the number of inodes for the filesystem.
If the number of inodes exceeds 65536, it is reduced to
65536.
-s sectors Create file system with specified number of disk sec‐
tors.
-V verbose This controls the amount of information written to std‐
out:
0 No output.
1 Overall size, ilist size, endian and filename
length.
2 A progress bar.
3
4 More verbose message.
The default is 3.
-Z Fill file with zeroes instead of creating a sparse file.
SEE ALSOdisklabel(5), disktab(5), disklabel(8), diskpart(8)BSD April 29, 2011 BSD