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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.
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>