mkfs.reiser4(8)

💖 mkfs.reiser4 — bestie's guide to making a reiser4 filesystem 💖

okay so this is mkfs.reiser4(8), from the reiser4progs manual, and it's literally the program for creating a reiser4 filesystem. yes queen, we're building filesystems from scratch. 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

mkfs.reiser4 — the program for creating reiser4 filesystem. that's it, that's the job. 💅

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

mkfs.reiser4 [ options ] FILE1 FILE2 ... [ size[K|M|G] ]

like, you give it options, then one or more FILEs, and optionally a size with K, M or G glued on the end. slay. 🦋

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

mkfs.reiser4 is the reiser4 filesystem creation program. it's built on the new libreiser4 library. and because libreiser4 is fully plugin-based, we lowkey have the potential to create not just reiser4 partitions, but literally any filesystem or database format that's based on balanced trees. the range?? iconic. 🔥

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💖 COMMON OPTIONS 💖

• -V, --version — prints program version. so you know what you're working with.
• -?, -h, --help — prints program help. bestie behavior honestly.
• -y, --yes — assumes an answer 'yes' to all questions. no more pop quizzes, it just says yes for you.
• -f, --force — forces mkfs to use whole disk, not block device or mounted partition. ⚠️ this is the "i know what i'm doing" flag, so like, know what you're doing.

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🎀 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). SSD girlies, this one's for you. 💜

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🌈 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 it prints modified plugins instead.
• -l, --print-plugins — prints all plugins libreiser4 know about. the whole roster, periodt.
• -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

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😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

report bugs to <reiserfs-devel@vger.kernel.org> — pls don't suffer in silence, the devs wanna hear it fr fr. 🫶

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🔍 SEE ALSO 🔍

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

go read those too, iykyk. ✨

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🌟 AUTHOR 🌟

this manual page was written by Yury Umanets <umka@namesys.com>. thank you king. 👑

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this page came from the reiser4progs manual and it's dated 02 Oct, 2002 — vintage but still serving. that's the whole page bestie, go make some filesystems responsibly 💖🌈⭐

mkfs.reiser4(8) ・ reiser4progs ・ 02 Oct, 2002 🌸