disk-utils/mkfs.minix.8

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   2 .\" May be freely distributed.
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   4 .TH MKFS 8 "2 July 1996" "Util-linux 2.6" "Linux System Administrator's Manual"
   5 .SH NAME
   6 mkfs \- make a Linux MINIX filesystem
   7 .SH SYNOPSIS
   8 .BR "mkfs [ \-c | \-l filename ] [ \-n"
   9 namelength
  10 .B ] [ \-i
  11 inodecount
  12 .B ] [ \-v ]
  13 device
  14 .B [
  15 size-in-blocks
  16 .B ]
  17 .SH DESCRIPTION
  18 .B mkfs
  19 creates a Linux MINIX file-system on a device (usually a disk partition).
  20
  21 The
  22 .I device
  23 is usually of the following form:
  24
  25 .nf
  26 .RS
  27 /dev/hda[1-8] (IDE disk 1)
  28 /dev/hdb[1-8] (IDE disk 2)
  29 /dev/sda[1-8] (SCSI disk 1)
  30 /dev/sdb[1-8] (SCSI disk 2)
  31 .RE
  32 .fi
  33
  34 The
  35 .I size-in-blocks
  36 parameter is the desired size of the file system, in blocks.  This
  37 information can be determined from the
  38 .BR fdisk (8)
  39 or
  40 .BR cfdisk (8)
  41 program.  If omitted it will be determined automaticaly.  Only block
  42 counts strictly greater than 10 and strictly less than 65536 are
  43 allowed.
  44 .SH OPTIONS
  45 .TP
  46 .B \-c
  47 Check the device for bad blocks before creating the file system.  If any
  48 are found, the count is printed.
  49 .TP
  50 .BI \-n " namelength"
  51 Specify the maximum length of filenames.  No space is allowed between the
  52 .B \-n
  53 and the
  54 .IR namelength.  Currently, the only allowable
  55 values are 14 and 30.
  56 .B 30 is the default.
  57 .TP
  58 .BI \-i " inodecount"
  59 Specify the number of inodes for the filesystem.
  60 .TP
  61 .BI \-l " filename"
  62 Read the bad blocks list from
  63 .IR filename .
  64 The file has one bad block number per line.  The count of bad blocks read
  65 is printed.
  66 .TP
  67 .B \-v
  68 Make a Minix version 2 filesystem.
  69 .SH "EXIT CODES"
  70 The exit code returned by
  71 .B mkfs.minix
  72 is one of the following:
  73 .IP 0
  74 No errors
  75 .IP 8
  76 Operational error
  77 .IP 16
  78 Usage or syntax error
  79 .SH "SEE ALSO"
  80 .BR fsck (8),
  81 .BR mkefs (8),
  82 .BR efsck (8),
  83 .BR reboot (8)
  84 .SH AUTHORS
  85 Stared by Linus Torvalds (torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi).
  86 .br
  87 Error code values by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
  88 .br
  89 Inode request feature by Scott Heavner (sdh@po.cwru.edu)
  90 .br
  91 Support for the file system valid flag by Dr. Wettstein
  92 (greg%wind.uucp@plains.nodak.edu)
  93 .br
  94 Check to prevent mkfs of mounted filesystem and boot sector clearing
  95 by Daniel Quinlan (quinlan@yggdrasil.com)
  96 .br
  97 Minix v2 support by Andreas Schwab
  98 (schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de), updated by Nicolai
  99 Langfeldt (janl@math.uio.no)
 100 .br
 101 Portability patch by Russell King.