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→Creating Container: formatting
After the Container ID and the installed OS template have been chosen, you can create the Container ''private area'' with the <code>vzctl create</code> command. The ''private area'' is the directory containing the actual files of the given Container; it is usually residing in <code>/vz/private/''CTID''/</code>. The private area is mounted to the <code>/vz/root/''CTID''</code> directory on the Hardware Node and provides Container users with a complete Linux file system tree.
The <code>vzctl create</code> command requires only the Container ID and the name of the OS template as arguments; however, in order to avoid setting all the Container resource control parameters after creating the private area, you can specify a sample configuration to be used for your new Container. The sample configuration files are residing in the <code>/etc/vz/conf </code> directory and have names with the following mask: <code>ve-''configname''.conf-sample</code>. The most commonly used sample is the <code>ve-basic.conf-sample</code> file; this sample file has resource control parameters suitable for most Containers.
Thus, for example, you can create a new Container by typing the following string:
