Use the mkfs command of linux to establish a file system on a specific partition

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Create ext2, ext3, ext4, ms-dos, vfat file systems on disk partitions, and ext2 is created by default. Mkfs is used to build a Linux file system, usually a hard disk partition, on a device. The file is either a device name (for example, / dev/hda1,/dev/sdb2) or a regular file that contains the file system. Success returns 0 and failure returns 1.

In fact, mkfs is just the front end of the various file system builders (mkfs.fstype) available under Linux, searching for file system-specific generators in possible directories such as / sbin, / sbin/fs, / sbin/fs.d, / etc/fs, / etc/fs, and so on (exact lists are defined at compile time, but at least / sbin and / sbin/fs are included), and finally in the directories listed in the PATH environment variable.

Syntax format: mkfs [parameters]

Common parameters:

Device prepared to check the hard disk partition, for example: / dev/sda1-V detailed display mode-t given file system type, the default value of Linux is ext2-c before making the file system, check whether the partition has bad tracks-l bad_blocks_file adds the block data with bad tracks to the size of the block given block in bad_blocks_file

Reference example

Build a msdos file system on / dev/hda5, check for bad tracks, and list the process in detail:

[root@linuxcool] # mkfs-V-t msdos-c / dev/hda5

Format the sda6 partition to ext3 format:

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