| .\" Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) |
| .\" May be freely distributed. |
| .\" " for emacs hilit19 mode |
| .TH MKFS 8 "2 July 1996" "Util-linux 2.6" "Linux System Administrator's Manual" |
| .SH NAME |
| mkfs \- make a Linux MINIX filesystem |
| .SH SYNOPSIS |
| .BR "mkfs [ \-c | \-l filename ] [ \-n" |
| namelength |
| .B ] [ \-i |
| inodecount |
| .B ] [ \-v ] |
| device |
| .B [ |
| size-in-blocks |
| .B ] |
| .SH DESCRIPTION |
| .B mkfs |
| creates a Linux MINIX file-system on a device (usually a disk partition). |
| |
| The |
| .I device |
| is usually of the following form: |
| |
| .nf |
| .RS |
| /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) |
| .RE |
| .fi |
| |
| The |
| .I size-in-blocks |
| parameter is the desired size of the file system, in blocks. This |
| information can be determined from the |
| .BR fdisk (8) |
| or |
| .BR cfdisk (8) |
| program. If omitted it will be determined automaticaly. Only block |
| counts strictly greater than 10 and strictly less than 65536 are |
| allowed. |
| .SH OPTIONS |
| .TP |
| .B \-c |
| Check the device for bad blocks before creating the file system. If any |
| are found, the count is printed. |
| .TP |
| .BI \-n " namelength" |
| Specify the maximum length of filenames. |
| Currently, the only allowable values are 14 and 30. |
| .B 30 is the default. |
| .TP |
| .BI \-i " inodecount" |
| Specify the number of inodes for the filesystem. |
| .TP |
| .BI \-l " filename" |
| Read the bad blocks list from |
| .IR filename . |
| The file has one bad block number per line. The count of bad blocks read |
| is printed. |
| .TP |
| .B \-v |
| Make a Minix version 2 filesystem. |
| .SH "EXIT CODES" |
| The exit code returned by |
| .B mkfs.minix |
| is one of the following: |
| .IP 0 |
| No errors |
| .IP 8 |
| Operational error |
| .IP 16 |
| Usage or syntax error |
| .SH "SEE ALSO" |
| .BR mkfs (8), |
| .BR fsck (8), |
| .BR mke2fs (8), |
| .BR e2fsck (8), |
| .BR reboot (8) |
| .\" .SH AUTHORS |
| .\" Linus Torvalds (torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi). |
| .\" .br |
| .\" Error code values by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) |
| .\" .br |
| .\" Inode request feature by Scott Heavner (sdh@po.cwru.edu) |
| .\" .br |
| .\" Support for the file system valid flag by Dr. Wettstein |
| .\" (greg%wind.uucp@plains.nodak.edu) |
| .\" .br |
| .\" Check to prevent mkfs of mounted filesystem and boot sector clearing |
| .\" by Daniel Quinlan (quinlan@yggdrasil.com) |
| .\" .br |
| .\" Minix v2 support by Andreas Schwab |
| .\" (schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de), updated by Nicolai |
| .\" Langfeldt (janl@math.uio.no) |
| .\" .br |
| .\" Portability patch by Russell King. |