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| author | rodrigc <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-10-31 19:21:51 +0000 |
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| committer | rodrigc <rodrigc@FreeBSD.org> | 2007-10-31 19:21:51 +0000 |
| commit | 58bd59271376bdcd678d845ec9d6fe9ac0246e07 (patch) | |
| tree | a1c7b23b072dde18c38f3621035240eb9f4f3c94 /share | |
| parent | b4332bf74e162316e7eba9a7f5e10f66ea77df53 (diff) | |
| download | FreeBSD-src-58bd59271376bdcd678d845ec9d6fe9ac0246e07.zip FreeBSD-src-58bd59271376bdcd678d845ec9d6fe9ac0246e07.tar.gz | |
Add a small note about how "mkfs.xfs -p" can be used to create
an XFS file system populated with files.
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| -rw-r--r-- | share/man/man5/xfs.5 | 12 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man5/xfs.5 b/share/man/man5/xfs.5 index e9931cd..4465484 100644 --- a/share/man/man5/xfs.5 +++ b/share/man/man5/xfs.5 @@ -66,13 +66,23 @@ port contains the .Cm mkfs.xfs utility for creating XFS file systems, and also other utilities for analyzing, -and repairing XFS file systems. +and repairing XFS file systems. .Sh CAVEATS The port of XFS to .Fx is currently incomplete. Only read-only access is supported for XFS volumes. Writing to a volume is not supported. +.Pp +The +.Fl p +flag to +.Cm mkfs.xfs +can be used to create an XFS file system which is populated with files +and other metadata. +This can be used to quickly create a read-only file system which +can be tested on +.Fx . .Sh HISTORY XFS was originally written by SGI for the IRIX operating system. SGI ported XFS to Linux, and released the source code under the GNU |
