Mkfs

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mkfs           mkfs.cramfs    mkfs.ext3      mkfs.minix     mkfs.reiserfs
mkfs.bfs       mkfs.exfat     mkfs.ext4      mkfs.msdos     mkfs.vfat
mkfs.btrfs     mkfs.ext2      mkfs.fat       mkfs.ntfs      mkfs.xfs

mkfs.fat /dev/sda111
mkfs.fat 4.1 (2017-01-24)

mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda222
mke2fs 1.44.1 (24-Mar-2018)
Found a dos partition table in /dev/sda222
Proceed anyway? (y,N) y
mkfs.ext4: inode_size (128) * inodes_count (0) too big for a

filesystem with 0 blocks, specify higher inode_ratio (-i) or lower inode count (-N).

Related commands

• blkid

See also

• mkfs, mkfs.ext4, mkfs -t, mount
• File systems: ext4, XFS, ZFS, btrfs, wipefs, findfs, HDFS, overlay, aufs, virt-filesystems, Windows: (FAT, NTFS, ReFS), GPFS, squashfs, Ecryptfs, Encfs, FUSE, VMFS, Comparison of distributed file systems, Userspace filesystem, Resize filesystem size