1 .\" Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
2 .\" May be freely distributed.
3 .TH MKFS.MINIX 8 "2 July 1996" "Util-linux 2.6" "Linux System Administrator's Manual"
5 mkfs.minix \- make a Linux MINIX filesystem
7 .BR "mkfs.minix [ \-c | \-l filename ] [ \-n"
18 creates a Linux MINIX file-system on a device (usually a disk partition).
22 is usually of the following form:
26 /dev/hda[1-8] (IDE disk 1)
27 /dev/hdb[1-8] (IDE disk 2)
28 /dev/sda[1-8] (SCSI disk 1)
29 /dev/sdb[1-8] (SCSI disk 2)
35 parameter is the desired size of the file system, in blocks.
36 It is present only for backwards compatibility.
37 If omitted the size will be determined automatically.
38 Only block counts strictly greater than 10 and strictly less than
43 Check the device for bad blocks before creating the file system. If any
44 are found, the count is printed.
47 Specify the maximum length of filenames.
48 Currently, the only allowable values are 14 and 30.
52 Specify the number of inodes for the filesystem.
55 Read the bad blocks list from
57 The file has one bad block number per line. The count of bad blocks read
61 Make a Minix version 2 filesystem.
63 The exit code returned by
65 is one of the following: