mkfs8
Build a linux filesystem
Usage
mkfs [options]
[-t
type]
[fs-options]
device
[size]
Overview
This mkfs frontend is deprecated in favour of filesystem specific mkfs.<type> utils.
mkfs is used to build a Linux filesystem on a device, usually a hard disk partition. The device argument is either the device name (e.g., /dev/hda1, /dev/sdb2), or a regular file that shall contain the filesystem. The size argument is the number of blocks to be used for the filesystem.
The exit status returned by mkfs is 0 on success and 1 on failure.
In actuality, mkfs is simply a front-end for the various filesystem builders (mkfs.fstype) available under Linux. The filesystem-specific builder is searched for via your PATH environment setting only. Please see the filesystem-specific builder manual pages for further details.
Options
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-t, --type type -
Specify the type of filesystem to be built. If not specified, the default filesystem type (currently ext2) is used.
fs-options
Filesystem-specific options to be passed to the real filesystem builder.
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-V, --verbose -
Produce verbose output, including all filesystem-specific commands that are executed. Specifying this option more than once inhibits execution of any filesystem-specific commands. This is really only useful for testing.
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-h, --help -
Display help text and exit.
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-V, --version -
Display version and exit. (Option
-Vwill display version information only when it is the only parameter, otherwise it will work as--verbose.)
Releases
19 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 14 times.
--help since Debian 7 (Wheezy);
--type since Debian 7 (Wheezy);
--verbose since Debian 7 (Wheezy);
--version since Debian 7 (Wheezy);
-h since Debian 7 (Wheezy);
-t since Debian 7 (Wheezy).
-c until Debian 6.0 (Squeeze);
-v until Debian 6.0 (Squeeze).