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1 | .\" Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) |
| 2 | .\" May be freely distributed. | |
| b59c5925 | 3 | .TH MKFS.MINIX 8 "June 2015" "util-linux" "System Administration" |
| 6dbe3af9 | 4 | .SH NAME |
| 232dc924 | 5 | mkfs.minix \- make a Minix filesystem |
| 6dbe3af9 | 6 | .SH SYNOPSIS |
| f881abbc | 7 | .B mkfs.minix |
| b59c5925 | 8 | [options] |
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9 | .I device |
| 10 | .RI [ size-in-blocks ] | |
| 6dbe3af9 | 11 | .SH DESCRIPTION |
| eb63b9b8 | 12 | .B mkfs.minix |
| 449a215f | 13 | creates a Linux MINIX filesystem on a device (usually a disk partition). |
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14 | |
| 15 | The | |
| 16 | .I device | |
| 17 | is usually of the following form: | |
| 18 | ||
| 19 | .nf | |
| 20 | .RS | |
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21 | /dev/hda[1\(en8] (IDE disk 1) |
| 22 | /dev/hdb[1\(en8] (IDE disk 2) | |
| 23 | /dev/sda[1\(en8] (SCSI disk 1) | |
| 24 | /dev/sdb[1\(en8] (SCSI disk 2) | |
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25 | .RE |
| 26 | .fi | |
| 27 | ||
| b9c3b903 | 28 | The device may be a block device or an image file of one, but this is not |
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29 | enforced. Expect not much fun on a character device :-). |
| 30 | .PP | |
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31 | The |
| 32 | .I size-in-blocks | |
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33 | parameter is the desired size of the file system, in blocks. |
| 34 | It is present only for backwards compatibility. | |
| 35 | If omitted the size will be determined automatically. | |
| 36 | Only block counts strictly greater than 10 and strictly less than | |
| 37 | 65536 are allowed. | |
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38 | .SH OPTIONS |
| 39 | .TP | |
| b59c5925 | 40 | \fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-check\fR |
| 449a215f | 41 | Check the device for bad blocks before creating the filesystem. If any |
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42 | are found, the count is printed. |
| 43 | .TP | |
| b59c5925 | 44 | \fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-namelength\fR \fIlength\fR |
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45 | Specify the maximum length of filenames. Currently, the only allowable |
| 46 | values are 14 and 30 for file system versions 1 and 2. Version 3 allows | |
| 47 | only value 60. The default is 30. | |
| 6dbe3af9 | 48 | .TP |
| b59c5925 | 49 | \fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-inodes\fR \fInumber\fR |
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50 | Specify the number of inodes for the filesystem. |
| 51 | .TP | |
| b59c5925 | 52 | \fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-badblocks\fR \fIfilename\fR |
| 449a215f | 53 | Read the list of bad blocks from |
| 6dbe3af9 | 54 | .IR filename . |
| 449a215f | 55 | The file has one bad-block number per line. The count of bad blocks read |
| 6dbe3af9 | 56 | is printed. |
| fd6b7a7f | 57 | .TP |
| 4bc4653e | 58 | .B \-1 |
| 2159dbf3 | 59 | Make a Minix version 1 filesystem. This is the default. |
| 4bc4653e | 60 | .TP |
| 449a215f | 61 | .BR \-2 , " \-v" |
| fd6b7a7f | 62 | Make a Minix version 2 filesystem. |
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63 | .TP |
| 64 | .B \-3 | |
| 65 | Make a Minix version 3 filesystem. | |
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66 | .TP |
| 67 | \fB\-V\fR, \fB\-\-version\fR | |
| 68 | Display version information and exit. The long option cannot be combined | |
| 69 | with other options. | |
| 70 | .TP | |
| 71 | \fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-help\fR | |
| 72 | Display help text and exit. | |
| 7e765c93 | 73 | .SH EXIT STATUS |
| a87f49f6 | 74 | The exit status returned by |
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75 | .B mkfs.minix |
| 76 | is one of the following: | |
| 77 | .IP 0 | |
| 78 | No errors | |
| 79 | .IP 8 | |
| 80 | Operational error | |
| 81 | .IP 16 | |
| 82 | Usage or syntax error | |
| 5a829806 | 83 | .SH SEE ALSO |
| 6dbe3af9 | 84 | .BR fsck (8), |
| f053ff1e | 85 | .BR mkfs (8), |
| 6dbe3af9 | 86 | .BR reboot (8) |
| 86d62711 | 87 | .SH AVAILABILITY |
| 601d12fb | 88 | The mkfs.minix command is part of the util-linux package and is available from |
| d673b74e | 89 | https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/. |