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Various fixes from Jason McIntyre <jmc@kerhand.co.uk>.

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.\" $NetBSD: newfs_ext2fs.8,v 1.7 2009/12/01 08:47:25 pooka Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: newfs_ext2fs.8,v 1.8 2010/02/17 21:39:14 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1983, 1987, 1991, 1993, 1994
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
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.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm newfs_ext2fs
.Nd construct a new Ext2 file system
.Nd construct a new ext2 file system
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl FINZ
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.Ar special
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
is used to initialize and clear Ext2 file systems before first use.
is used to initialize and clear ext2 file systems before first use.
Before running
.Nm
the disk must be labeled using
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Bytes; causes no modification.
(Default)
.It k
Kilo; multiply the argument by 1024
Kilo; multiply the argument by 1024.
.It m
Mega; multiply the argument by 1048576
Mega; multiply the argument by 1048576.
.It g
Giga; multiply the argument by 1073741824
Giga; multiply the argument by 1073741824.
.El
.Pp
The following options define the general layout policies.
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.It \*[Gt] 512 MB
4 KB
.El
.It Fl D
.It Fl D Ar inodesize
Set the inode size.
Defaults to 128, and can also be set to 256 for
compatibility with ext4.
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No attempts to use or update the disk label will be made.
.It Fl f Ar frag-size
The fragment size of the file system in bytes.
It must be the same with blocksize because current ext2fs
It must be the same with blocksize because the current ext2fs
implementation doesn't support fragmentation.
.It Fl I
Do not require that the file system type listed in the disk label is
.Ql Linux Ext2 .
.Ql Linux ext2 .
.It Fl i Ar bytes-per-inode
This specifies the density of inodes in the file system.
If fewer inodes are desired, a larger number should be used;
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The default number of inodes is calculated from a number of blocks in
the file system.
.It Fl O Ar filesystem-format
Select the filesystem-format
Select the filesystem-format.
.Bl -tag -width 3n -offset indent -compact
.It 0
.Ql GOOD_OLD_REV ;
This option is primarily used to build root file systems that can be
this option is primarily used to build root file systems that can be
understood by old or dumb firmwares for bootstrap.
(default)
.It 1
.Ql DYNAMIC_REV ;
Various extended (and sometimes incompatible) features are enabled
various extended (and sometimes incompatible) features are enabled
(though not all features are supported on
.Nx ) .
Currently only the following features are supported:
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This controls the amount of information written to stdout:
.Bl -tag -width 3n -offset indent -compact
.It 0
No output
No output.
.It 1
Overall size and cylinder group details.
.It 2
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The default is 3.
If
.Fl N
is specifed
is specified
.Nm
stops before outputting the progress bar.
.It Fl v Ar volname
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.El
.Sh NOTES
There is no option to specify the metadata byte order on the file system
to be created because native Ext2 file system is always little endian
to be created the because native ext2 file system is always little endian
even on big endian hosts.
.Pp
The file system is created with
.Sq random
inode generation numbers to improve NFS security.
.Pp
The owner and group ids of the root node and reserved blocks of the new
file system are set to the effective uid and gid of the user initializing
The owner and group IDs of the root node and reserved blocks of the new
file system are set to the effective UID and GID of the user initializing
the file system.
.Pp
For the
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command to succeed,
the disk label should first be updated such that the fstype field for the
partition is set to
.Ql Linux Ext2 ,
.Ql Linux ext2 ,
unless
.Fl F
or
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.\" utility.
.\" .Pp
The partition size is found using
.Xr fstat 2
not by inspecting the disklabel.
The block size and fragment size will be written back to the disklabel
.Xr fstat 2 ,
not by inspecting the disk label.
The block size and fragment size will be written back to the disk label
only if the last character of
.Ar special
references the same partition as the minor device number.
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.\" .Xr makefs 8 ,
.Xr mount 8 ,
.Xr mount_ext2fs 8 ,
.Xr newfs 8 ,
.Xr newfs 8
.Rs
.%A Remy Card
.%A Theodore Ts'o
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.Nm
command doesn't support the bad block list accounted by the bad blocks inode.
.Pp
Many newer Ext2 file system features (especially journaling) are
Many newer ext2 file system features (especially journaling) are
not supported yet.
.Pp
Some features in file systems created by the
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.Pp
There is no native tool in the
.Nx
distribution for resizing Ext2 file systems yet.
distribution for resizing ext2 file systems yet.