Most of the documentation is a snapshot of the old Namesys site (archive.org, 2007-09-29).
There was also a Reiser4 Wiki (archive.org, 2007-07-06) once on pub.namesys.com.
Reiser4 development appears to have stalled and ReiserFS is deprecated and scheduled to be removed from mainline Linux in 2025.
Mkfs.reiser4
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NAME
mkfs.reiser4 - the program for creating reiser4 filesystems
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
REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org>
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Yury Umanets <umka@namesys.com>
