disk-utils/mkfs.minix.8

   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"
   4 .SH NAME
   5 mkfs.minix \- make a Linux MINIX filesystem
   6 .SH SYNOPSIS
   7 .BR "mkfs.minix [ \-c | \-l filename ] [ \-n"
   8 namelength
   9 .B ] [ \-i
  10 inodecount
  11 .B ] [ \-v ]
  12 device
  13 .B [
  14 size-in-blocks
  15 .B ]
  16 .SH DESCRIPTION
  17 .B mkfs.minix
  18 creates a Linux MINIX file-system on a device (usually a disk partition).
  19
  20 The
  21 .I device
  22 is usually of the following form:
  23
  24 .nf
  25 .RS
  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)
  30 .RE
  31 .fi
  32
  33 The
  34 .I size-in-blocks
  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
  39 65536 are allowed.
  40 .SH OPTIONS
  41 .TP
  42 .B \-c
  43 Check the device for bad blocks before creating the file system.  If any
  44 are found, the count is printed.
  45 .TP
  46 .BI \-n " namelength"
  47 Specify the maximum length of filenames.
  48 Currently, the only allowable values are 14 and 30.
  49 The default is 30. Note that kernels older than 0.99p7
  50 only accept namelength 14.
  51 .TP
  52 .BI \-i " inodecount"
  53 Specify the number of inodes for the filesystem.
  54 .TP
  55 .BI \-l " filename"
  56 Read the bad blocks list from
  57 .IR filename .
  58 The file has one bad block number per line.  The count of bad blocks read
  59 is printed.
  60 .TP
  61 .B \-v
  62 Make a Minix version 2 filesystem.
  63 .SH "EXIT CODES"
  64 The exit code returned by
  65 .B mkfs.minix
  66 is one of the following:
  67 .IP 0
  68 No errors
  69 .IP 8
  70 Operational error
  71 .IP 16
  72 Usage or syntax error
  73 .SH "SEE ALSO"
  74 .BR mkfs (8),
  75 .BR fsck (8),
  76 .BR reboot (8)