man/mkfs.f2fs.8

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.\"  Written by Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>
.\"
.TH MKFS.F2FS 8
.SH NAME
mkfs.f2fs \- create an F2FS file system
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B mkfs.f2fs
[
.B \-a
.I heap-based-allocation
]
[
.B \-c
.I device
]
[
.B \-l
.I volume-label
]
[
.B \-o
.I overprovision-ratio-percentage
]
[
.B \-s
.I #-of-segments-per-section
]
[
.B \-z
.I #-of-sections-per-zone
]
[
.B \-e
.I extenstion-list
]
[
.B \-d
.I debugging-level
]
.I device
.I [sectors]
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B mkfs.f2fs
is used to create a f2fs file system (usually in a disk partition).
\fIdevice\fP is the special file corresponding to the device (e.g.
\fI/dev/sdXX\fP).
\fIsectors\fP is optionally given for specifing the filesystem size.
.PP
The exit code returned by
.B mkfs.f2fs
is 0 on success and 1 on failure.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BI \-a " heap-based-allocation"
Specify 1 or 0 to enable/disable heap based block allocation policy.
If the value is equal to 1, each of active log areas are initially
assigned separately according to the whole volume size.
The default value is 1.
.TP
.BI \-c " device"
Build f2fs with this device additionally, so that user can see all
the devices as one big volume.
.TP
.BI \-l " volume-label"
Specify the volume label to the partition mounted as F2FS.
.TP
.BI \-o " overprovision-ratio-percentage"
Specify the percentage over the volume size for overprovision area. This area
is hidden to users, and utilized by F2FS cleaner. If not specified, the best
number will be assigned automatically accoring to the partition size.
.TP
.BI \-s " #-of-segments-per-section"
Specify the number of segments per section. A section consists of
multiple consecutive segments, and is the unit of garbage collection.
The default number is 1, which means one segment is assigned to a section.
.TP
.BI \-z " #-of-sections-per-zone"
Specify the number of sections per zone. A zone consists of multiple sections.
F2FS allocates segments for active logs with separated zones as much as possible.
The default number is 1, which means a zone consists of one section.
.TP
.BI \-e " extension-list"
Specify a file extension list in order f2fs to treat them as cold files.
The data of files having those extensions will be stored to the cold log.
The default list includes most of multimedia file extensions such as jpg, gif,
mpeg, mkv, and so on.
.TP
.BI \-d " debug-level"
Specify the level of debugging options.
The default number is 0, which shows basic debugging messages.
.TP
.SH AUTHOR
This version of
.B mkfs.f2fs
has been written by Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk.kim@samsung.com>.
.SH AVAILABILITY
.B mkfs.f2fs
is available from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jaegeuk/f2fs-tools.git.
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR mkfs (8),
.BR fsck.f2fs(8),
.BR dump.f2fs(8),
.BR defrag.f2fs(8),
.BR resize.f2fs(8),
.BR sload.f2fs(8).