Linux Administration Cookbook

How to do it...

Listing systems you can create is relatively easy, as you can tab mkfs a couple of times to get a list of established aliases:

$ mkfsmkfs         mkfs.cramfs  mkfs.ext3    mkfs.minix   mkfs.btrfs   mkfs.ext2    mkfs.ext4    mkfs.xfs

Your distribution may have others available, though not installed by default.

For example, if I want to manage DOS filesystems, I can install dosfstools:

$ sudo yum install dosfstools -y

I've suddenly got the msdos, vfat, and fat options:

$ mkfsmkfs         mkfs.cramfs  mkfs.ext3    mkfs.fat     mkfs.msdos   mkfs.xfsmkfs.btrfs   mkfs.ext2    mkfs.ext4    mkfs.minix   mkfs.vfat  

You can also list the filesystems your kernel is capable of interacting with by using your current kernel's module directory:

$ ls /lib/modules/3.10.0-862.2.3.el7.x86_64/kernel/fs ...