mkfs
Build a Linux filesystem on a hard disk partition.
This command is deprecated in favor of filesystem specific 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