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Anyone know how I can see the valid fields for the option -t? I do know that there are front ends to this program regarding individual file systems but I ...
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- 01-13-2004 #1Linux Engineer
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Anyone know how I can see the valid fields for the option -t? I do know that there are front ends to this program regarding individual file systems but I need to be sure for an exam.
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- 01-13-2004 #2Linux Engineer
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the mkfs manpage says that it is a frontend for all of the mkfs.<fstype> programs.. so try this:
that should locate all of the mkfs progs..Code:find / -iname mkfs*
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I'm fairly sure that "mkfs -t fstype" just execs "/sbin/mkfs.fstype".
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this is the result of the find command on my system.. i told it to look for mkfs* :
hope that helps...Code:/usr/sbin/mkfs.vfat /usr/sbin/mkfs.msdos /usr/share/man/man8/mkfs.ext2.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/mkfs.ext3.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/mkfs.vfat.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/mkfs.msdos.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/mkfs.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/mkfs.minix.8.gz /usr/share/man/man8/mkfs.bfs.8.gz /sbin/mkfs /sbin/mkfs.ext2 /sbin/mkfs.ext3 /sbin/mkfs.cramfs /sbin/mkfs.bfs /sbin/mkfs.minix
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