mkfile(1M)						  System Administration Commands						mkfile(1M)

NAME

       mkfile - create a file

SYNOPSIS

       mkfile [-nv] size [g | k | b | m] filename...

DESCRIPTION

       mkfile  creates	one  or  more files that are suitable for use as NFS-mounted swap areas, or as local swap areas. When a root user executes
       mkfile(), the sticky bit is set and the file is padded with zeros by default.   When non-root users execute  mkfile(), they  must  manually
       set the sticky bit using  chmod(1). The default size is in bytes, but it can be flagged as gigabytes, kilobytes, blocks, or megabytes, with
       the g, k, b, or m suffixes, respectively.

OPTIONS

       -n    Create an empty filename. The size is noted, but disk blocks are not allocated until data is written to them. Files created with this
	     option cannot be swapped over local UFS mounts.

       -v    Verbose.  Report the names and sizes of created files.

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0     Success.

       >0    An error occurred.

USAGE

       See largefile(5) for the description of the behavior of mkfile when encountering files greater than or equal to 2 Gbyte ( 2^31 bytes).

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWcsu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Committed 		   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       chmod(1), swap(1M), attributes(5), largefile(5)

SunOS 5.11							    20 Feb 2008 							mkfile(1M)