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MKFS(8) System Administration MKFS(8)
mkfs - build a Linux filesystem
mkfs [options] [-t type] [fs-options] device [size]
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.
-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.
-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.
-V, --version
Display version information and exit. (Option -V will
display version information only when it is the only
parameter, otherwise it will work as --verbose.)
-h, --help
Display help text and exit.
All generic options must precede and not be combined with
filesystem-specific options. Some filesystem-specific programs
do not automatically detect the device size and require the size
parameter to be specified.
David Engel (david@ods.com)
Fred N. van Kempen (waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org)
Ron Sommeling (sommel@sci.kun.nl)
The manual page was shamelessly adapted from Remy Card's version
for the ext2 filesystem.
fs(5), badblocks(8), fsck(8), mkdosfs(8), mke2fs(8), mkfs.bfs(8),
mkfs.ext2(8), mkfs.ext3(8), mkfs.ext4(8), mkfs.minix(8),
mkfs.msdos(8), mkfs.vfat(8), mkfs.xfs(8)
The mkfs command is part of the util-linux package and is
available from
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
This page is part of the util-linux (a random collection of Linux
utilities) project. Information about the project can be found
at ⟨https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/⟩. If you
have a bug report for this manual page, send it to
util-linux@vger.kernel.org. This page was obtained from the
project's upstream Git repository
⟨git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git⟩ on
2020-12-18. (At that time, the date of the most recent commit
that was found in the repository was 2020-12-17.) If you
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util-linux June 2011 MKFS(8)
Pages that refer to this page: crypttab(5), filesystems(5), lvmvdo(7), fdformat(8), fdisk(8), fsck(8@@e2fsprogs), fsck(8), fsck.minix(8), mkfs.bfs(8), mkfs.minix(8), mkfs.xfs(8), parted(8), xfs_growfs(8)
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