Name
Synopsis
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Description
Create virtual disk container files for use the the CHARON family of virtual machines. By default, this utility will display a usage message.
Mandatory arguments to long options are mandatory for short options too.
-a, --avtable PATHNAME
Use this option to specify an alternate location, PATHNAME
, of the known disk device table.
-c, --blcount BLOCKCOUNT
Specify the number of blocks, BLOCKCOUNT
, in the virtual disk container file. Use this option with -z, --blsize
to set the block size.
-d, --disk NAME
Specify the NAME
of a known disk type. Use -l, --list
to see a list of disk types supported by the utility.
-h, --help
Display the utility usage message.
-l, --list
Display a list of the known disk types.
-o, --output FILENAME
Specify the pathname of the virtual disk container file.
-s, --silent
Do not write any output to the terminal.
-z, --blsize BLOCKSIZE
Specify the BLOCKSIZE
in bytes when creating a custom virtual disk container file. This option must be used with -c, --blcount
.
Exit Status
The mkdskcmd
utility exits 0
on success and non-zero
if an error occurs.
Examples
The following example creates the virtual disk container file /usr/local/vm/leela/disk0.vdisk
using the geometry of a Seagate ST446452W 46GB disk drive.
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This example creates a virtual disk container file, /usr/local/vm/bender/disk0.vdisk
, using a block size of 4,096 bytes and a total of 16,384 blocks.
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