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Format and Label an XFS Volume

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Write /home/player/mkxfs.sh: a bash script that creates an XFS filesystem on /dev/sdb1, labelled data, then verifies it. Use set -euo pipefail, run mkfs.xfs with the -f force flag and -L data label on /dev/sdb1, and afterwards print the geometry with xfs_info on the same device. Start with a bash shebang. (Authored config, graded structurally — the engine isn't run here.)

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