mkfs

Submitted by Anonymous
on February 9, 2006 - 1:18pm

How the mkfs utility is used to create linux filesystem?Any link?Where to get the code for it?

mkfs is the entry point

Anonymous (not verified)
on
February 9, 2006 - 1:58pm

mkfs is just an umbrella. You have to be specific /which/
mkfs you want to look at. There exist a different one
for each and every file system. mkfs.ext2, mkfs.xfs ...

mkfs.ext2

Anonymous (not verified)
on
February 9, 2006 - 10:50pm

mkfs.ext2

mkfs.ext2

Anonymous (not verified)
on
February 10, 2006 - 4:19am

Usage:

man mkfs.ext2

or
the world wide web.

Source:
http://e2fsprogs.sourceforge.net/

If you have a rpm based system you can find out which
program belongs to which package like this:
rpm -qf /sbin/mkfs.ext2

Have fun!

How to compile that mke2fs co

Anonymous (not verified)
on
February 10, 2006 - 12:39pm

How to compile that mke2fs code?

With a C compiler.

Anonymous (not verified)
on
February 10, 2006 - 12:56pm

With a C compiler.

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