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1 /*
2 * mkfs A simple generic frontend for the for the mkfs program
3 * under Linux. See the manual page for details.
4 *
5 * Authors: David Engel, <david@ods.com>
6 * Fred N. van Kempen, <waltje@uWalt.NL.Mugnet.ORG>
7 * Ron Sommeling, <sommel@sci.kun.nl>
8 *
9 * Mon Jul 1 18:52:58 1996: janl@math.uio.no (Nicolai Langfeldt):
10 * Incorporated fix by Jonathan Kamens <jik@annex-1-slip-jik.cam.ov.com>
11 * 1999-02-22 Arkadiusz Miƛkiewicz <misiek@pld.ORG.PL>
12 * - added Native Language Support
13 *
14 */
15
16 /*
17 * This command is deprecated. The utility is in maintenance mode,
18 * meaning we keep them in source tree for backward compatibility
19 * only. Do not waste time making this command better, unless the
20 * fix is about security or other very critical issue.
21 *
22 * See Documentation/deprecated.txt for more information.
23 */
24
25 #include <getopt.h>
26 #include <limits.h>
27 #include <stdio.h>
28 #include <stdlib.h>
29 #include <string.h>
30 #include <unistd.h>
31
32 #include "c.h"
33 #include "closestream.h"
34 #include "nls.h"
35 #include "xalloc.h"
36
37 #ifndef DEFAULT_FSTYPE
38 #define DEFAULT_FSTYPE "ext2"
39 #endif
40
41 static void __attribute__((__noreturn__)) usage(void)
42 {
43 FILE *out = stdout;
44 fputs(USAGE_HEADER, out);
45 fprintf(out, _(" %s [options] [-t <type>] [fs-options] <device> [<size>]\n"),
46 program_invocation_short_name);
47
48 fputs(USAGE_SEPARATOR, out);
49 fputs(_("Make a Linux filesystem.\n"), out);
50
51 fputs(USAGE_OPTIONS, out);
52 fprintf(out, _(" -t, --type=<type> filesystem type; when unspecified, ext2 is used\n"));
53 fprintf(out, _(" fs-options parameters for the real filesystem builder\n"));
54 fprintf(out, _(" <device> path to the device to be used\n"));
55 fprintf(out, _(" <size> number of blocks to be used on the device\n"));
56 fprintf(out, _(" -V, --verbose explain what is being done;\n"
57 " specifying -V more than once will cause a dry-run\n"));
58 printf(USAGE_HELP_OPTIONS(20));
59
60 printf(USAGE_MAN_TAIL("mkfs(8)"));
61 exit(EXIT_SUCCESS);
62 }
63
64 int main(int argc, char **argv)
65 {
66 char *progname; /* name of executable to be called */
67 char *fstype = NULL;
68 int i, more = 0, verbose = 0;
69
70 enum { VERSION_OPTION = CHAR_MAX + 1 };
71
72 static const struct option longopts[] = {
73 {"type", required_argument, NULL, 't'},
74 {"version", no_argument, NULL, VERSION_OPTION},
75 {"verbose", no_argument, NULL, 'V'},
76 {"help", no_argument, NULL, 'h'},
77 {NULL, 0, NULL, 0}
78 };
79
80 setlocale(LC_ALL, "");
81 bindtextdomain(PACKAGE, LOCALEDIR);
82 textdomain(PACKAGE);
83 close_stdout_atexit();
84
85 if (argc == 2 && !strcmp(argv[1], "-V"))
86 print_version(EXIT_SUCCESS);
87
88 /* Check commandline options. */
89 opterr = 0;
90 while ((more == 0)
91 && ((i = getopt_long(argc, argv, "Vt:h", longopts, NULL))
92 != -1))
93 switch (i) {
94 case 'V':
95 verbose++;
96 break;
97 case 't':
98 fstype = optarg;
99 break;
100 case 'h':
101 usage();
102 case VERSION_OPTION:
103 print_version(EXIT_SUCCESS);
104 default:
105 optind--;
106 more = 1;
107 break; /* start of specific arguments */
108 }
109 if (optind == argc) {
110 warnx(_("no device specified"));
111 errtryhelp(EXIT_FAILURE);
112 }
113
114 /* If -t wasn't specified, use the default */
115 if (fstype == NULL)
116 fstype = DEFAULT_FSTYPE;
117
118 xasprintf(&progname, "mkfs.%s", fstype);
119 argv[--optind] = progname;
120
121 if (verbose) {
122 printf(UTIL_LINUX_VERSION);
123 i = optind;
124 while (argv[i])
125 printf("%s ", argv[i++]);
126 printf("\n");
127 if (verbose > 1)
128 return EXIT_SUCCESS;
129 }
130
131 /* Execute the program */
132 execvp(progname, argv + optind);
133 err(EXIT_FAILURE, _("failed to execute %s"), progname);
134 }