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MKFS(8) System Administration MKFS(8)
mkfs - build a Linux filesystem
mkfs [options] [-t type] [fs-options] device [size]
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.
-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.
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.
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.
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)
The mkfs command is part of the util-linux package and is available
from https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
This page is part of the util-linux (a random collection of Linux
utilities) project. Information about the project can be found at
⟨https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/⟩. If you have a
bug report for this manual page, send it to
util-linux@vger.kernel.org. This page was obtained from the
project's upstream Git repository
⟨git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/util-linux/util-linux.git⟩ on
2018-02-02. (At that time, the date of the most recent commit that
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util-linux June 2011 MKFS(8)
Pages that refer to this page: filesystems(5), fdformat(8), fdisk(8), fsck(8@@e2fsprogs), fsck(8), fsck.minix(8), mkfs.bfs(8), mkfs.minix(8), mkfs.xfs(8), parted(8), xfs_growfs(8)
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