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.
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[edit] NAME
mkfs.reiser4 - the program for creating reiser4 filesystems
[edit] SYNOPSIS
mkfs.reiser4 [ options ] FILE1 FILE2 ... [ size[K|M|G] ]
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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).
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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
[edit] REPORTING BUGS
Report bugs to <reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org>
[edit] SEE ALSO
[edit] AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Yury Umanets <umka@namesys.com>