mkfs - build a Linux filesystem

       David Engel <david@ods.com>, Fred N. van Kempen <waltje@uwalt.nl.mugnet.org>, Ron Sommeling
       <sommel@sci.kun.nl>.

       The manual page was shamelessly adapted from Remy Card’s version for the ext2 filesystem.

       The mkfs command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive
       <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>.

util-linux 2.41                                    2025-02-26                                            MKFS(8)

       All generic options must precede and not be combined with filesystem-specific options. Some
       filesystem-specific programs do not automatically detect the device size and require the size parameter
       to be specified.

Thismkfsfrontendisdeprecatedinfavouroffilesystemspecificmkfs.<type>utils.mkfs is used to build a Linux filesystem on a device, usually a hard disk partition. The device argument
       is either the device name (e.g., /dev/hda1, /dev/sdb2), or a regular file that shall contain the
       filesystem. The size argument is the number of blocks to be used for the filesystem.

       The exit status returned by mkfs is 0 on success and 1 on failure.

       In actuality, mkfs is simply a front-end for the various filesystem builders (mkfs.fstype) available
       under Linux. The filesystem-specific builder is searched for via your PATH environment setting only.
       Please see the filesystem-specific builder manual pages for further details.

       mkfs - build a Linux filesystem

-t, --typetype
           Specify the type of filesystem to be built. If not specified, the default filesystem type (currently
           ext2) is used.

       fs-options
           Filesystem-specific options to be passed to the real filesystem builder.

       -V, --verbose
           Produce verbose output, including all filesystem-specific commands that are executed. Specifying this
           option more than once inhibits execution of any filesystem-specific commands. This is really only
           useful for testing.

       -h, --help
           Display help text and exit.

       -V, --version
           Display version and exit. (Option -V will display version information only when it is the only
           parameter, otherwise it will work as --verbose.)

       For bug reports, use the issue tracker <https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues>.

fs(5), badblocks(8), fsck(8), mkdosfs(8), mke2fs(8), mkfs.bfs(8), mkfs.ext2(8), mkfs.ext3(8),
       mkfs.ext4(8), mkfs.minix(8), mkfs.msdos(8), mkfs.vfat(8), mkfs.xfs(8)

mkfs [options] [-ttype] [fs-options] device [size]