bionic (8) mkfs.8.gz

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NAME

       mkfs - build a Linux filesystem

SYNOPSIS

       mkfs [options] [-t type] [fs-options] device [size]

DESCRIPTION

       This mkfs frontend is deprecated in favour of filesystem specific mkfs.<type> utils.

       mkfs is used to build a Linux filesystem on a device, usually a hard disk partition.  The device argument
       is either the device name (e.g.  /dev/hda1,  /dev/sdb2),  or  a  regular  file  that  shall  contain  the
       filesystem.  The size argument is the number of blocks to be used for the filesystem.

       The exit code returned by mkfs is 0 on success and 1 on failure.

       In  actuality,  mkfs  is  simply  a front-end for the various filesystem builders (mkfs.fstype) available
       under Linux.  The filesystem-specific builder is searched for via your  PATH  environment  setting  only.
       Please see the filesystem-specific builder manual pages for further details.

OPTIONS

       -t, --type type
              Specify  the  type  of  filesystem  to  be  built.   If not specified, the default filesystem type
              (currently ext2) is used.

       fs-options
              Filesystem-specific options to be passed to the real filesystem builder.

       -V, --verbose
              Produce verbose output, including all filesystem-specific commands that are executed.   Specifying
              this option more than once inhibits execution of any filesystem-specific commands.  This is really
              only useful for testing.

       -V, --version
              Display version information and exit.  (Option -V will display version information only when it is
              the only parameter, otherwise it will work as --verbose.)

       -h, --help
              Display help text and exit.

BUGS

       All  generic options must precede and not be combined with filesystem-specific options.  Some filesystem-
       specific programs do not automatically detect the device size  and  require  the  size  parameter  to  be
       specified.

AUTHORS

       David Engel (david@ods.com)
       Fred N. van Kempen (waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org)
       Ron Sommeling (sommel@sci.kun.nl)
       The manual page was shamelessly adapted from Remy Card's version for the ext2 filesystem.

SEE ALSO

       fs(5), badblocks(8), fsck(8), mkdosfs(8), mke2fs(8), mkfs.bfs(8), mkfs.ext2(8), mkfs.ext3(8),
       mkfs.ext4(8), mkfs.minix(8), mkfs.msdos(8), mkfs.vfat(8), mkfs.xfs(8)

AVAILABILITY

       The   mkfs   command   is    part    of    the    util-linux    package    and    is    available    from
       https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.