mkreiserfs/mkreiserfs.8

.\" -*- nroff -*-
.\" Copyright 1996-2003 Hans Reiser.
.\" 
.TH MKREISERFS 8 "April 2003" "Reiserfsprogs-3.6.9"
.SH NAME
mkreiserfs \- create a Linux ReiserFS file system 
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B mkreiserfs
[ \fB-dfV\fR ]
[ \fB-b\fR | \fB--block-size \fIN\fR ]
[ \fB-h\fR | \fB--hash \fIHASH\fR ]
[ \fB-u\fR | \fB--uuid \fIUUID\fR ] 
[ \fB-l\fR | \fB--label \fILABEL\fR ]
[ \fB--format \fIFORMAT\fR ]
[ \fB-q\fR | \fB--quiet\fR ]
[ \fB-j\fR | \fB--journal-device \fIFILE\fR ]
[ \fB-s\fR | \fB--journal-size \fIN\fR ]
[ \fB-o\fR | \fB--journal-offset \fIN\fR ]
[ \fB-t\fR | \fB--transaction-max-size\fR \fIN\fR ] \fI device\fR
[ \fIfilesystem-size\fR ]
.SH DESCRIPTION
It creates a Linux ReiserFS file system on a device
(usually a disk partition).
.TP
.I device
is the special file corresponding to the device (e.g /dev/hdXX for
IDE disk partition or /dev/sdXX for SCSI disk partition).
.TP
.I filesystem-size
size of filesystem in blocks. If omitted, it will be
determined by
.B mkreiserfs
automatically.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
\fB-b\fR | \fB--block-size \fIN\fR
\fIN\fR is block size in bytes. 4096 only for now.
.TP
\fB-h\fR | \fB--hash \fIHASH\fR
\fIHASH\fR specifies the name of hash function file names in directories
will be sorted with. Choose one of r5, rupasov, tea. r5 is default
.TP
\fB--format \fIFORMAT\fR
\fIFORMAT\fR specifies a format new filsystem has to be of. Choose one
of 3.5 and 3.6. If none is specified \fBmkreiserfs\fR will create format 3.6
if running kernel is 2.4, 3.5 if 2.2 is running, and will refuse
creation under other kernels.
.TP
\fB-u\fR | \fB--uuid \fIUUID\fR
Set  the  universally  unique  identifier (\fB UUID \fR) of the filesystem to 
\fIUUID\fR (see also \fBuuidgen(8)\fR). The  format  of  the  UUID  is  a 
series  of  hex  digits  separated  by  hypthens,  like  this:
"c1b9d5a2-f162-11cf-9ece-0020afc76f16". If the option skipped,
\fBmkreiserfs\fR generates a new one.
.TP
\fB-l\fR | \fB--label \fILABEL\fR
Set  the  volume  label  of  the filesystem. \fILABEL\fR can be at most 16
characters long; if it is longer than 16 characters, \fBmkreiserfs\fR will truncate it.
.TP
\fB-q\fR | \fB--quiet \fR
Make \fBmkreiserfs\fR to work quiet without producing any message, progress and question. 
It is useful if you run \fBmkreiserfs\fR in a script. For use by end users only.
.TP
\fB-j\fR | \fB--journal-device \fIFILE\fR
\fIFILE\fR is name of block device where the file system is to have
journal on.
.TP
\fB-o\fR | \fB--journal-offset \fIN\fR
\fIN\fR is an offset where journal starts when it is to be on a
separate device. Default is 0. Makes no effect when journal is to be
on a host device
.TP
\fB-s\fR | \fB--journal-size \fIN
\fIN\fR is size of journal in blocks. When journal is to be on a
separate device - its size defaults to number of blocks that device
has. When journal is to be on a host device - its size defaults 8193
and maximal possible value is 32749 (for blocksize 4k). Minimun is 513
for both cases.
.TP
\fB-t\fR | \fB--transaction-max-size \fIN
\fIN\fR is the maximum transaction size parameter for the journal. The
default, and max possible, value is 1024 blocks. It should be less
than half the size of the journal. If specifed incorrectly, it will be
adjusted.
.TP
\fB-f\fR
This forces \fBmkreiserfs\fR to continue even if device is either whole
disk, or looks mounted or is not a block device. Specified more than
once allows to avoid asking for confirmation.
.TP
\fB-d\fR
This makes \fBmkreiserfs\fR to print debugging information during \fBmkreiserfs\fR.
.TP
\fB-V\fR
This prints version and exits.

.SH AUTHOR
This version of
.B mkreiserfs
has been written by Edward Shishkin <edward@namesys.com>.
.SH BUGS
No other blocksizes but 4k are available.
Please, report about other bugs to 
the ReiserFS mail-list <reiserfs-list@namesys.com>
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR reiserfsck (8),
.BR debugreiserfs (8),
.BR reiserfstune (8)