mkfs.reiser4(8) 						reiser4progs manual						   mkfs.reiser4(8)

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.

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,  directo-
	      ries, 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

       measurefs.reiser4(8), debugfs.reiser4(8), fsck.reiser4(8)

AUTHOR

       This manual page was written by Yury Umanets <umka@namesys.com>

reiser4progs							   02 Oct, 2002 						   mkfs.reiser4(8)