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+.\" Copyright 1992, 1993, 1994 Rickard E. Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
+.\" May be freely distributed.
+.TH MKFS.MINIX 8 "June 2011" "util-linux" "System Administration"
+.SH NAME
+mkfs.minix \- make a Minix filesystem
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B mkfs.minix
+.RB [ \-c | \-l
+.IR filename ]
+.RB [ \-n
+.IR namelength ]
+.RB [ \-i
+.IR inodecount ]
+.RB [ \-v ]
+.I device
+.RI [ size-in-blocks ]
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.B mkfs.minix
+creates a Linux MINIX filesystem on a device (usually a disk partition).
+
+The
+.I device
+is usually of the following form:
+
+.nf
+.RS
+/dev/hda[1-8] (IDE disk 1)
+/dev/hdb[1-8] (IDE disk 2)
+/dev/sda[1-8] (SCSI disk 1)
+/dev/sdb[1-8] (SCSI disk 2)
+.RE
+.fi
+
+The
+.I size-in-blocks
+parameter is the desired size of the file system, in blocks.
+It is present only for backwards compatibility.
+If omitted the size will be determined automatically.
+Only block counts strictly greater than 10 and strictly less than
+65536 are allowed.
+.SH OPTIONS
+.TP
+.B \-c
+Check the device for bad blocks before creating the filesystem.  If any
+are found, the count is printed.
+.TP
+.BI \-n " namelength"
+Specify the maximum length of filenames.
+Currently, the only allowable values are 14 and 30.
+The default is 30.  Note that kernels older than 0.99p7
+only accept namelength 14.
+.TP
+.BI \-i " inodecount"
+Specify the number of inodes for the filesystem.
+.TP
+.BI \-l " filename"
+Read the list of bad blocks from
+.IR filename .
+The file has one bad-block number per line.  The count of bad blocks read
+is printed.
+.TP
+.B \-1
+Make a Minix version 1 filesystem.
+.TP
+.BR \-2 , " \-v"
+Make a Minix version 2 filesystem.
+.TP
+.B \-3
+Make a Minix version 3 filesystem.
+.SH "EXIT CODES"
+The exit code returned by
+.B mkfs.minix
+is one of the following:
+.IP 0
+No errors
+.IP 8
+Operational error
+.IP 16
+Usage or syntax error
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+.BR mkfs (8),
+.BR fsck (8),
+.BR reboot (8)
+.SH AVAILABILITY
+The mkfs.minix command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
+ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.