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MKFS.MINIX(8) System Administration MKFS.MINIX(8)
mkfs.minix - make a Minix filesystem
mkfs.minix [options] device [size-in-blocks]
mkfs.minix creates a Linux MINIX filesystem on a device (usually
a disk partition).
The device is usually of the following form:
/dev/hda[1–8] (IDE disk 1)
/dev/hdb[1–8] (IDE disk 2)
/dev/sda[1–8] (SCSI disk 1)
/dev/sdb[1–8] (SCSI disk 2)
The device may be a block device or an image file of one, but
this is not enforced. Expect not much fun on a character device
:-).
The size-in-blocks parameter is the desired size of the file
system, in blocks. It is present only for backwards
compatibility. If omitted the size will be determined
automatically. Only block counts strictly greater than 10 and
strictly less than 65536 are allowed.
-c, --check
Check the device for bad blocks before creating the
filesystem. If any are found, the count is printed.
-n, --namelength length
Specify the maximum length of filenames. Currently, the
only allowable values are 14 and 30 for file system
versions 1 and 2. Version 3 allows only value 60. The
default is 30.
--lock[=mode]
Use exclusive BSD lock for device or file it operates.
The optional argument mode can be yes, no (or 1 and 0) or
nonblock. If the mode argument is omitted, it defaults to
"yes". This option overwrites environment variable
$LOCK_BLOCK_DEVICE. The default is not to use any lock at
all, but it's recommended to avoid collisions with udevd
or other tools.
-i, --inodes number
Specify the number of inodes for the filesystem.
-l, --badblocks filename
Read the list of bad blocks from filename. The file has
one bad-block number per line. The count of bad blocks
read is printed.
-1 Make a Minix version 1 filesystem. This is the default.
-2, -v Make a Minix version 2 filesystem.
-3 Make a Minix version 3 filesystem.
-V, --version
Display version information and exit. The long option
cannot be combined with other options.
-h, --help
Display help text and exit.
LOCK_BLOCK_DEVICE=<mode>
use exclusive BSD lock. The mode is "1" or "0". See
--lock for more details.
The exit status returned by mkfs.minix is one of the following:
0 No errors
8 Operational error
16 Usage or syntax error
fsck(8), mkfs(8), reboot(8)
The mkfs.minix 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
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util-linux June 2015 MKFS.MINIX(8)
Pages that refer to this page: fsck.minix(8), mkfs(8), systemd-makefs@.service(8)
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