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