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 ([email protected])        Fred N. van Kempen ([email protected])        Ron Sommeling ([email protected])        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        ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.