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MKFS(8)								       MKFS(8)

NAME
       mkfs - build a Linux file system

SYNOPSIS
       mkfs [-V] [-t fstype] [fs-options] filesys [blocks]

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

       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  file	system
       builders (mkfs.fstype) available under Linux.  The file system-specific
       builder is searched for in a number of directories like perhaps	/sbin,
       /sbin/fs,  /sbin/fs.d,  /etc/fs,	 /etc  (the precise list is defined at
       compile time but at least contains /sbin and /sbin/fs), and finally  in
       the  directories	 listed	 in the PATH environment variable.  Please see
       the file system-specific builder manual pages for further details.

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

       -t fstype
	      Specifies	 the  type  of file system to be built.	 If not speci‐
	      fied, the default file system type (currently ext2) is used.

       fs-options
	      File system-specific options to be passed to the real file  sys‐
	      tem builder.  Although not guaranteed, the following options are
	      supported by most file system builders.

       -c     Check the device for bad blocks before building the file system.

       -l filename
	      Read the bad blocks list from filename

       -v     Produce verbose output.

BUGS
       All generic options must precede and not be combined with file  system-
       specific	 options.   Some  file system-specific programs do not support
       the -v (verbose) option, nor return meaningful exit codes.  Also,  some
       file  system-specific  programs	do not automatically detect the device
       size and require the blocks 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 file system.

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

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

Version 1.9			   Jun 1995			       MKFS(8)
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