mkcramfs(8)

mkcramfs8

Make a compressed rom file system

Usage

mkcramfs [-h] [-b blksize] [-e edition] [-i file] [-n name] dirname outfile

Overview

This manual page documents briefly the mkcramfs command. This manual page was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution (but may be used by others), because the original program does not have a manual page.

mkcramfs constructs a CramFs from the contents of dirname. The image of the resulting file system is placed in outfile.

Options

-h

Give a brief help message.

-E

Make all warnings errors (non-zero exit status).

-b blksize

Set the block size of the generated file system.

-e edition

Set the edition number (part of fsid).

-i file

Insert a file image into the filesystem (requires Linux >= 2.4.0).

-n name

Set the name of the CramFs filesystem.

-p

Pad by 512 bytes for boot code.

-s

Sort directory entries (old option, ignored).

-v

Turn on verbose mode.

-z

Make explicit holes (requires Linux >= 2.3.39).

Releases

7 releases since Debian 3.0 (Woody); the text changed 1 time.

  1. 3.0
  2. 3.1–8

-E since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -b since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -e since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -h since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -i since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -n since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -p since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -s since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -v since Debian 3.1 (Sarge); -z since Debian 3.1 (Sarge).

Author

mkcramfs is written by Linus Torvalds and Daniel Quinlan. Manual page added by Herbert Xu.

From cramfsprogs 1.1-6 in Debian 8 (Jessie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.