mke2fs - freemint/freemint GitHub Wiki

• Filesystem

mke2fs is a filesystem creation tool. Main reason for this programm is to build EXT2 partitions.

The use of latest e2fsprogs may cause problems on some systems (eg. FireBee), in which case you can use the older package (version 1.19 - 2000). This contains mke2fs version 1.25.

It requires a hard disk driver that support at least XHDI level 1.10, a partition ID of LNX or RAW, and the ext2.xfs filesystem driver for MiNT.

If you start mke2fs without any parameter, you get the following output:

#./mke2fs
mke2fs 1.27 (8-Mar-2002)
Usage: ./mke2fs [-c|-t|-l filename] [-b block-size] [-f fragment-size]
        [-i bytes-per-inode] [-j] [-J journal-options] [-N number-of-inodes]
        [-m reserved-blocks-percentage] [-o creator-os] [-g blocks-per-group]
        [-L volume-label] [-M last-mounted-directory] [-O feature[,...]]
        [-r fs-revision] [-R raid_opts] [-qvSV] device [blocks-count]

Very simple example (creates an ext2 filesystem on driver letter D with partiton label "Devel"):

#./mke2fs -L "Devel" /d