mkreiser4 (8)
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Hey, EMACS: First parameter, NAME, should be all caps Second parameter, SECTION, should be 1-8, maybe w/ subsection other parameters are allowed: see man(7), man(1)
NAME
mkfs.reiser4 - the program for creating reiser4 filesystem.SYNOPSIS
mkfs.reiser4 [ options ] FILE1 FILE2 ... [ size[K|M|G] ]DESCRIPTION
mkfs.reiser4 is reiser4 filesystem creation program. It is based on new libreiser4 library. Since libreiser4 is fully plugin-based, we have the potential to create not just reiser4 partitions, but any filesystem or database format, which is based on balanced trees.COMMON OPTIONS
- -V, --version
- prints program version.
- -?, -h, --help
- prints program help.
- -y, --yes
- assumes an answer 'yes' to all questions.
- -f, --force
- forces mkfs to use whole disk, not block device or mounted partition.
MKFS OPTIONS
- -b, --block-size N
- block size to be used (architecture page size by default)
- -L, --label LABEL
- volume label to be used
- -U, --uuid UUID
- universally unique identifier to be used
- -s, --lost-found
- forces mkfs to create lost+found directory.
- -d, --discard
- tells mkfs to discard given device before creating the filesystem (for solid state drives).
PLUGIN OPTIONS
- -p, --print-profile
- prints the plugin profile. This is the set of default plugins used for all parts of a filesystem -- format, nodes, files, directories, hashes, etc. If --override is specified, then prints modified plugins.
- -l, --print-plugins
- prints all plugins libreiser4 know about.
- -o, --override TYPE=PLUGIN, ...
-
overrides the default plugin of the type "TYPE" by the plugin "PLUGIN"
in the plugin profile.
Examples:
assign short key plugin to "key" field in order to create filesystem with short keys policy:
mkfs.reiser4 -yf -o key=key_short /dev/hda2