1 .\" Copyright 1999 Andries E. Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl)
2 .\" May be freely distributed.
3 .TH MKFS.BFS 8 "12 Sept 1999" "Util-linux 2.9x" "Linux System Administrator's Manual"
5 mkfs.bfs \- make an SCO bfs filesystem
15 .RI [ size-in-blocks ]
18 creates an SCO bfs file-system on a block device
19 (usually a disk partition or a file accessed via the loop device).
23 parameter is the desired size of the file system, in blocks.
24 If nothing is specified, the entire partition will be used.
28 Specify the desired number of inodes (at most 512).
29 If nothing is specified some default number in the range 48-512 is picked
30 depending on the size of the partition.
32 .BI \-V " volume-label"
33 Specify the volume label. I have no idea if/where this is used.
36 Specify the fsname. I have no idea if/where this is used.
41 The exit code returned by
43 is 0 when all went well, and 1 when something went wrong.
47 The mkfs.bfs command is part of the util-linux-ng package and is available from
48 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux-ng/.