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| author | Karel Zak | 2006-12-07 00:25:34 +0100 |
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| committer | Karel Zak | 2006-12-07 00:25:34 +0100 |
| commit | fd6b7a7ffc50400704beb41d5a23af5f9edb1eed (patch) | |
| tree | 997c0ca2abc018369babd7da59bcd0afe492068e /disk-utils/mkfs.minix.8 | |
| parent | Imported from util-linux-2.5 tarball. (diff) | |
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Imported from util-linux-2.7.1 tarball.
Diffstat (limited to 'disk-utils/mkfs.minix.8')
| -rw-r--r-- | disk-utils/mkfs.minix.8 | 42 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/disk-utils/mkfs.minix.8 b/disk-utils/mkfs.minix.8 index 3c59bb073..8f9e70242 100644 --- a/disk-utils/mkfs.minix.8 +++ b/disk-utils/mkfs.minix.8 @@ -1,21 +1,19 @@ .\" Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) .\" May be freely distributed. .\" " for emacs hilit19 mode -.TH MKFS 8 "10 January 1994" "Linux 0.99" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.TH MKFS 8 "2 July 1996" "Util-linux 2.6" "Linux System Administrator's Manual" .SH NAME mkfs \- make a Linux MINIX filesystem .SH SYNOPSIS -.BR "mkfs [ \-c ] [ \-n" +.BR "mkfs [ \-c | \-l filename ] [ \-n" namelength .B ] [ \-i inodecount +.B ] [ \-v ] +device +.B [ +size-in-blocks .B ] -device size-in-blocks -.br -.B "mkfs [ \-l" -filename -.B ] -device size-in-blocks .SH DESCRIPTION .B mkfs creates a Linux MINIX file-system on a device (usually a disk partition). @@ -26,10 +24,10 @@ is usually of the following form: .nf .RS -/dev/hda[1-8] -/dev/hdb[1-8] -/dev/sda[1-8] -/dev/sdb[1-8] +/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 @@ -38,8 +36,11 @@ The parameter is the desired size of the file system, in blocks. This information can be determined from the .BR fdisk (8) -program. Only block counts strictly greater than 10 and strictly less than -65536 are allowed. +or +.BR cfdisk (8) +program. If omitted it will be determined automaticaly. Only block +counts strictly greater than 10 and strictly less than 65536 are +allowed. .SH OPTIONS .TP .B \-c @@ -62,6 +63,9 @@ 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 @@ -77,8 +81,8 @@ Usage or syntax error .BR mkefs (8), .BR efsck (8), .BR reboot (8) -.SH AUTHOR -Linus Torvalds (torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi) +.SH AUTHORS +Stared by Linus Torvalds (torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi). .br Error code values by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) .br @@ -89,3 +93,9 @@ Support for the file system valid flag by Dr. Wettstein .br Check to prevent mkfs of mounted filesystem and boot sector clearing by Daniel Quinlan (quinlan@yggdrasil.com) +.br +Minix v2 support by Andreas Schwab +(schwab@issan.informatik.uni-dortmund.de), updated by Nicolai +Langfeldt (janl@math.uio.no) +.br +Portability patch by Russell King.
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