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Chapter 3: Linux Commands

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-F fat-size

Create File Allocation Tables (FATs) of size fat-size. By default

this will be between 12 and 16 bits. Set to 32 to create a

FAT32 filesystem.

-i volume-id

Use the specified 32-bit hexadecimal volume-id instead of

calculating a number based on the time of creation.

-I Force installation to a device without partitions. This is useful

when formating magneto-optical disks.

-l file

Read list of bad blocks from file.

-m message-file

Set the message to be used when the filesystem is booted

without an installed operating system to the contents of the

file message-file. The message may be up to 418 bytes in size.

If filename is a hyphen, read text from standard input.

-n label

Set volume name for filesystem to label. The volume name

may be up to 11 characters long.

-r maximum-entries

Set the maximum-entries allowed in the root directory. The

default is 112 or 224 for floppies, and 512 for hard disks.

-R reserved-sectors

Create the specified number of reserved-sectors. The default

depends on the size of the File Allocation Table (FAT). For 32-

bit FAT, the default is 32; for all other sizes, the default is 1.

-s sectors

Set the number of disk sectors per cluster. The number must

be a power of 2.

-S sector-size

Create logical sectors of sector-size bytes. Size must