5.2.4. Creating the File System
The following command creates a GFS file system on the logical volume.
gfs_mkfs -plock_nolock -j 1 /dev/striped_vol_group/striped_logical_volume
[root@tng3-1 ~]# gfs_mkfs -plock_nolock -j 1 /dev/striped_vol_group/striped_logical_volume
This will destroy any data on /dev/striped_vol_group/striped_logical_volume.
Are you sure you want to proceed? [y/n] y
Device: /dev/striped_vol_group/striped_logical_volume
Blocksize: 4096
Filesystem Size: 492484
Journals: 1
Resource Groups: 8
Locking Protocol: lock_nolock
Lock Table:
Syncing...
All Done
The following commands mount the logical volume and report the file system disk space usage.
mount /dev/striped_vol_group/striped_logical_volume /mnt df
[root@tng3-1 ~]# mount /dev/striped_vol_group/striped_logical_volume /mnt
[root@tng3-1 ~]# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
13902624 1656776 11528232 13% /
/dev/hda1 101086 10787 85080 12% /boot
tmpfs 127880 0 127880 0% /dev/shm
/dev/striped_vol_group/striped_logical_volume
1969936 20 1969916 1% /mnt