[TriLUG] mkfs vs mke2fs

[Ryan Leathers]

Thanks for the responses John and Tanner

On Fri, 2004-05-14 at 09:44, davis wrote:
> On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 09:24:38AM -0400, Ryan Leathers wrote:
> > Can someone explain to me the practical differences between mkfs and
> > mke2fs?
> > 
> 
> Hello Ryan,
> 
> I believe they are the same thing for ext2/3.  They are named differently 
> for ease of use.  In the past, I have seen one be a link
> to another.  However, on my current debian unstable sparc box, 
> I have three exact copies (not links) of the same program.
> 
> ie.:
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x    3 root     root        30392 Apr 12 19:10 /sbin/mke2fs*
> -rwxr-xr-x    3 root     root        30392 Apr 12 19:10 /sbin/mkfs.ext2*
> -rwxr-xr-x    3 root     root        30392 Apr 12 19:10 /sbin/mkfs.ext3*
> 
> On my debian sparc powerpc unstable box, I use more filesystems so they
> differ for minix and cramfs.
> 
> -rwxr-xr-x    3 root     root        34532 Feb 24 10:33 /sbin/mke2fs*
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         5700 Dec 10 03:29 /sbin/mkfs*
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        21556 Dec 10 03:29 /sbin/mkfs.cramfs*
> -rwxr-xr-x    3 root     root        34532 Feb 24 10:33 /sbin/mkfs.ext2*
> -rwxr-xr-x    3 root     root        34532 Feb 24 10:33 /sbin/mkfs.ext3*
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        16636 Dec 10 03:29 /sbin/mkfs.minix*
> -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root        11564 Dec 10 03:29 /sbin/mkswap*
> 
> 
> -- 
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> 
> John F. Davis                                            Durham, North Carolina
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