29.4 Creating a File System on a Fedora 31 Disk Partition

We now have a new disk installed, it is visible to Fedora 31 and we have configured a Linux partition on the disk. The next step is to create a Linux file system on the partition so that the operating system can use it to store files and data. The easiest way to create a file system on a partition is to use the mkfs.xfs utility:

# mkfs.xfs /dev/sdb1

meta-data=/dev/sdb1 isize=512 agcount=4, agsize=524224 blks

         = sectsz=512 attr=2, projid32bit=1

         = crc=1 finobt=1, sparse=1, rmapbt=0

         = reflink=1

data = bsize=4096 blocks=2096896, imaxpct=25

         = sunit=0 swidth=0 blks

naming =version 2 bsize...