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* -- Happy Trails John F. Davis Durham, North Carolina Airhead BMW Club #6334 1992 R100GSPD http://www.skink.net -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
