mkntfs
create an NTFS file system
see also :
badblocks
Synopsis
mkntfs
[options] device
[number-of-sectors]
mkntfs [
-C ] [ -c
cluster-size ] [ -F ] [
-f ] [ -H heads ] [
-h ] [ -I ] [ -L
volume-label ] [ -l ] [
-n ] [ -p
part-start-sect ] [ -Q ] [
-q ] [ -S
sectors-per-track ] [ -s
sector-size ] [ -T ] [
-U ] [ -V ] [ -v ] [
-z mft-zone-multiplier ] [
--debug ] device [
number-of-sectors ]
add an example, a script, a trick and tips
examples
source
echo y | /bin/mkntfs
-v:WDTVLiveHub /dev/${DEV}3;
fi
fi
sleep 1;
echo 1 > /sys/block/${DEV}/uevent
touch /tmp/format_sata_done
echo y | /bin/mkntfs -v:WDTVPriv
/dev/${DEV}1;
echo y | /bin/mkntfs
-v:WDTVLiveHub /dev/${DEV}3;
fi
sleep 1;
source
for _file in mkntfs ntfscat
ntfsclone ntfscluster ntfscmp ntfscp ntfsfix ntfsinfo ntfslabel
ntfsls ntfsmount ntfsresize ntfsundelete
for _file in mkntfs ntfscat
ntfsclone ntfscluster ntfscmp ntfscp ntfsfix ntfsinfo ntfslabel
ntfsls ntfsmount ntfsresize ntfsundelete
source
echo "[CMD]
mkntfs /dev/mapper/$ntfs_dev -c $clustersize -f"
mkntfs /dev/mapper/$ntfs_dev -c
$clustersize -f
source
if [[ "$FORMAT_TYPE" = "NTFS (fast)" ]]; then
mkntfs -f /dev/$OS_TO_DELETE_PARTITION
elif [[
"$FORMAT_TYPE" =
NTFS ]]; then
mkntfs /dev/$OS_TO_DELETE_PARTITION
source
sbin/mkntfs \
sbin/ntfsclone \
sbin/ntfscp \
sbin/ntfslabel \
sbin/ntfsresize \
sbin/ntfsundelete \
source
freebsd_ntfs_cmd="mkntfs -F $dd_name"
freebsd_reiser_cmd="mkfs.reiserfs $dd_name"
freebsd_swap_cmd="newfs -U /dev/${md}"
linux_ntfs_cmd="mkntfs -F $dd_name"
linux_reiser_cmd="mkreiserfs -f $dd_name"
linux_reiser4_cmd="mkfs.reiser4 -f $dd_name"
description
mkntfs
is used to create an NTFS file system on a device (usually a
disk partition) or file. device is the special file
corresponding to the device (e.g /dev/hdXX).
number-of-sectors is the number of
sectors on the device. If omitted, mkntfs
automagically figures the file system size.
options
Below is a
summary of all the options that mkntfs accepts.
Nearly all options have two equivalent names. The short name
is preceded by - and the long name is preceded
by --. Any single letter options, that
don’t take an argument, can be combined into a single
command, e.g. -fv is equivalent to -f
-v. Long named options can be abbreviated to any
unique prefix of their name.
Basic
options
-f, --fast, -Q,
--quick
Perform quick (fast) format.
This will skip both zeroing of the volume and bad sector
checking.
-L,
--label STRING
Set the volume label for the
filesystem.
-C,
--enable-compression
Enable compression on the
volume.
-n,
--no-action
Causes mkntfs to not
actually create a filesystem, but display what it would do
if it were to create a filesystem. All steps of the format
are carried out except the actual writing to the device.
Advanced
options
-c, --cluster-size
BYTES
Specify the size of clusters in
bytes. Valid cluster size values are powers of two, with at
least 256, and at most 65536 bytes per cluster. If omitted,
mkntfs uses 4096 bytes as the default cluster
size.
Note that the
default cluster size is set to be at least equal to the
sector size as a cluster cannot be smaller than a sector.
Also, note that values greater than 4096 have the side
effect that compression is disabled on the volume (due to
limitations in the NTFS compression algorithm currently in
use by Windows).
-s,
--sector-size BYTES
Specify the size of sectors in
bytes. Valid sector size values are 256, 512, 1024, 2048 and
4096 bytes per sector. If omitted, mkntfs attempts to
determine the sector-size automatically and if
that fails a default of 512 bytes per sector is used.
-p,
--partition-start SECTOR
Specify the partition start
sector. The maximum is 4294967295 (2^32-1). If
omitted, mkntfs attempts to determine
part-start-sect automatically and if that
fails a default of 0 is used. Note that
part-start-sect is required for Windows
to be able to boot from the created volume.
-H,
--heads NUM
Specify the number of heads.
The maximum is 65535 (0xffff). If omitted, mkntfs
attempts to determine the number of heads
automatically and if that fails a default of 0 is used. Note
that heads is required for Windows to be able to boot
from the created volume.
-S,
--sectors-per-track NUM
Specify the number of sectors
per track. The maximum is 65535 (0xffff). If omitted,
mkntfs attempts to determine the number of
sectors-per-track automatically and if
that fails a default of 0 is used. Note that
sectors-per-track is required for Windows
to be able to boot from the created volume.
-z,
--mft-zone-multiplier NUM
Set the MFT zone multiplier,
which determines the size of the MFT zone to use on the
volume. The MFT zone is the area at the beginning of the
volume reserved for the master file table (MFT), which
stores the on disk inodes (MFT records). It is noteworthy
that small files are stored entirely within the inode; thus,
if you expect to use the volume for storing large numbers of
very small files, it is useful to set the zone multiplier to
a higher value. Note, that the MFT zone is resized on the
fly as required during operation of the NTFS driver but
choosing a good value will reduce fragmentation. Valid
values are 1, 2, 3 and 4. The values have the following
meaning:
-T,
--zero-time
Fake the time to be 00:00:00
UTC, Jan 1, 1970 instead of the current system time. This is
only really useful for debugging purposes.
-U,
--with-uuid
Generate a random volume
UUID.
-I,
--no-indexing
Disable content indexing on the
volume. (This is only meaningful on Windows 2000 and later.
Windows NT 4.0 and earlier ignore this as they do not
implement content indexing at all.)
-F,
--force
Force mkntfs to run,
even if the specified device is not a block special
device, or appears to be mounted.
Output
options
-q, --quiet
Quiet execution; only errors
are written to stderr, no output to stdout occurs at all.
Useful if mkntfs is run in a script.
-v,
--verbose
Verbose execution.
--debug
Really verbose execution;
includes the verbose output from the -v option
as well as additional output useful for debugging
mkntfs.
Help options
-V, --version
Print the version number of
mkntfs and exit.
-l,
--license
Print the licensing information
of mkntfs and exit.
-h,
--help
Show a list of options with a
brief description of each one.
availability
mkntfs is part of the ntfs-3g package and is
available from:
http://www.tuxera.com/community/
known issues
When applying chkdsk to a file system, it sometimes throws a
warning "Correcting errors in the uppercase file." The uppercase
file is created while formatting and it defines the mapping of
lower case characters to upper case ones, as needed to sort file
names in directories. The warning means that the uppercase file
defined on the file system is not the same as the one used by the
Windows OS on which chkdsk is running, and this may happen
because newer versions of Windows take into account new
characters defined by the Unicode consortium.
Currently, mkntfs creates the uppercase table so that no warning
is thrown by Windows Vista, Windows 7 or Windows 8. A warning may
be thrown by other Windows versions, or if chkdsk is applied in
succession on different Windows versions.
bugs
If you find a
bug please send an email describing the problem to the
development team:
ntfs-3g-devel[:at:]lists.sf[:dot:]net
see also
badblocks ,
ntfsprogs
authors
mkntfs
was written by Anton Altaparmakov, Richard Russon, Erik
Sornes and Szabolcs Szakacsits. It was ported to ntfs-3g by
Erik Larsson and Jean-Pierre Andre.