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NAME

     mkfs - build a Linux filesystem

SYNOPSIS

     mkfs [options] [-t type] [fs-options] device [size]

DESCRIPTION

     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

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.

BUGS

     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.

AUTHORS

     David Engel <[email protected]>, Fred N. van Kempen <[email protected]>, Ron
     Sommeling <[email protected]>.

     The manual page was shamelessly adapted from Remy Card’s version for the ext2 filesystem.