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Enter a command. For example: reboot, mmcli, srun, lvcreate, genid.

mkfs

Build a Linux filesystem on a hard disk partition. This command is deprecated in favor of filesystem specific mkfs. utils. More information: https://manned.org/mkfs.

• Build a Linux ext2 filesystem on a partition:
   
  mkfs {{path/to/partition}}
   
• Build a filesystem of a specified type:
   
  mkfs -t {{ext4}} {{path/to/partition}}
   
• Build a filesystem of a specified type and check for bad blocks:
   
  mkfs -c -t {{ntfs}} {{path/to/partition}}