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Build a Linux filesystem on a hard disk partition. tldr-pages

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Build a Linux filesystem on a hard disk partition. Note: This command is deprecated, use filesystem specific commands like mkfs.ext4 instead.

Build a Linux ext2 filesystem on a partition

sudo mkfs /dev/sdXYIdentify

Build a filesystem of a specified type

sudo mkfs --type ext4 /dev/sdXYIdentify

Build a filesystem of a specified type and check for bad blocks

sudo mkfs -c --type ntfs /dev/sdXYIdentify