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* > > > -- > Happy Trails > > John F. Davis Durham, North Carolina > Airhead BMW Club #6334 1992 R100GSPD http://www.skink.net -- Ryan Leathers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Global Knowledge
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