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 "June 2015" "util-linux" "System Administration"
   4 .SH NAME
   5 mkfs.minix \- make a Minix filesystem
   6 .SH SYNOPSIS
   7 .B mkfs.minix
   8 [options]
   9 .I device
  10 .RI [ size-in-blocks ]
  11 .SH DESCRIPTION
  12 .B mkfs.minix
  13 creates a Linux MINIX filesystem on a device (usually a disk partition).
  14
  15 The
  16 .I device
  17 is usually of the following form:
  18
  19 .nf
  20 .RS
  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)
  25 .RE
  26 .fi
  27
  28 The device may be a block device or an image file of one, but this is not
  29 enforced.  Expect not much fun on a character device :-).
  30 .PP
  31 The
  32 .I size-in-blocks
  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.
  38 .SH OPTIONS
  39 .TP
  40 \fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-check\fR
  41 Check the device for bad blocks before creating the filesystem.  If any
  42 are found, the count is printed.
  43 .TP
  44 \fB\-n\fR, \fB\-\-namelength\fR \fIlength\fR
  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.
  48 .TP
  49 \fB\-i\fR, \fB\-\-inodes\fR \fInumber\fR
  50 Specify the number of inodes for the filesystem.
  51 .TP
  52 \fB\-l\fR, \fB\-\-badblocks\fR \fIfilename\fR
  53 Read the list of bad blocks from
  54 .IR filename .
  55 The file has one bad-block number per line.  The count of bad blocks read
  56 is printed.
  57 .TP
  58 .B \-1
  59 Make a Minix version 1 filesystem.  This is the default.
  60 .TP
  61 .BR \-2 , " \-v"
  62 Make a Minix version 2 filesystem.
  63 .TP
  64 .B \-3
  65 Make a Minix version 3 filesystem.
  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.
  73 .SH EXIT STATUS
  74 The exit code returned by
  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
  83 .SH SEE ALSO
  84 .BR fsck (8),
  85 .BR mkfs (8),
  86 .BR reboot (8)
  87 .SH AVAILABILITY
  88 The mkfs.minix command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
  89 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.