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81 lines
1.9 KiB
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.\" Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
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.\" May be freely distributed.
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.TH MKFS.MINIX 8 "2 July 1996" "Util-linux 2.6" "Linux System Administrator's Manual"
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.SH NAME
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mkfs.minix \- make a Linux MINIX filesystem
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.B mkfs.minix
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.RB [ \-c | \-l
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.IR filename ]
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.RB [ \-n
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.IR namelength ]
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.RB [ \-i
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.IR inodecount ]
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.RB [ \-v ]
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.I device
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.RI [ size-in-blocks ]
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B mkfs.minix
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creates a Linux MINIX file-system on a device (usually a disk partition).
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The
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.I device
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is usually of the following form:
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.nf
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.RS
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/dev/hda[1-8] (IDE disk 1)
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/dev/hdb[1-8] (IDE disk 2)
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/dev/sda[1-8] (SCSI disk 1)
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/dev/sdb[1-8] (SCSI disk 2)
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.RE
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.fi
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The
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.I size-in-blocks
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parameter is the desired size of the file system, in blocks.
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It is present only for backwards compatibility.
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If omitted the size will be determined automatically.
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Only block counts strictly greater than 10 and strictly less than
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65536 are allowed.
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.SH OPTIONS
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.TP
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.B \-c
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Check the device for bad blocks before creating the file system. If any
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are found, the count is printed.
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.TP
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.BI \-n " namelength"
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Specify the maximum length of filenames.
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Currently, the only allowable values are 14 and 30.
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The default is 30. Note that kernels older than 0.99p7
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only accept namelength 14.
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.TP
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.BI \-i " inodecount"
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Specify the number of inodes for the filesystem.
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.TP
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.BI \-l " filename"
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Read the bad blocks list from
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.IR filename .
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The file has one bad block number per line. The count of bad blocks read
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is printed.
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.TP
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.B \-v
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Make a Minix version 2 filesystem.
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.SH "EXIT CODES"
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The exit code returned by
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.B mkfs.minix
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is one of the following:
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.IP 0
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No errors
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.IP 8
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Operational error
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.IP 16
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Usage or syntax error
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.SH "SEE ALSO"
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.BR mkfs (8),
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.BR fsck (8),
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.BR reboot (8)
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.SH AVAILABILITY
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The mkfs.minix command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
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ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.
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