| | 1 | .\" (c) 1997 Apple Computer, Inc. |
| | 2 | .TH MKFILE 8 "1 September 1997" |
| | 3 | .SH NAME |
| | 4 | mkfile \- create a file |
| | 5 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
| | 6 | .B mkfile |
| | 7 | .RB [ " -nv " ] |
| | 8 | .I size\c |
| | 9 | [\c |
| | 10 | .BR b | k | m | g\c |
| | 11 | ] |
| | 12 | .IR filename " .\|.\|." |
| | 13 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| | 14 | .B mkfile |
| | 15 | creates one or more files that are suitable for use as |
| | 16 | .SM NFS-\s0mounted |
| | 17 | swap areas. The sticky bit is set, and |
| | 18 | the file is padded with zeroes by default. |
| | 19 | Non-root users must set the sticky bit using |
| | 20 | chmod(1). |
| | 21 | The default size unit is bytes, but the following suffixes |
| | 22 | may be used to multiply by the given factor: |
| | 23 | .B b |
| | 24 | (512), |
| | 25 | .B k |
| | 26 | (1024), |
| | 27 | .B m |
| | 28 | (1048576), and |
| | 29 | .B g |
| | 30 | (1073741824). |
| | 31 | .SH OPTIONS |
| | 32 | .TP |
| | 33 | .B \-n |
| | 34 | Create an empty |
| | 35 | .IR filename . |
| | 36 | The size is noted, but disk blocks aren't allocated until data is |
| | 37 | written to them. |
| | 38 | .TP |
| | 39 | .B \-v |
| | 40 | Verbose. Report the names and sizes of created files. |
| | 41 | .SH WARNING |
| | 42 | If a client's swap file is removed and recreated, it must be |
| | 43 | re-exported before the client will be able to access it. |
| | 44 | This action may only be done when the client is not running. |
| | 45 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| | 46 | .TP |
| | 47 | chmod(2), stat(2), exportfs(8), sticky(8) |
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