How to create an FS under SunOS?

Question

So there is a Global Zone, and we need to create an FS on a Zone that's in the Global Zone. Also we need the new FS in a new DG/Volume inside the DG of the Zone (if we see it from the Global Zone). How to do it? Using vx. (Or at least an authentic howto needed :D )

Answer 1

You create a file system under Solaris global zone with one of these commands.

• ZFS: zfs create filesystem
• UFS: newfs /dev/rdsk/...
• VXFS: mkfs -F vxfs ... /dev/vx/rdsk/...

You can then use zonecfg to make that file system visible in non global zones.

# zonecfg -z zone1
zonecfg:zone1> add fs
zonecfg:zone1:fs> set dir=/nonglobalzone/path
    zonecfg:zone1:fs> set special=/path/to/the/filesystem/you/just/created
    zonecfg:zone1:fs> set type=lofs
    zonecfg:zone1:fs> end