MKREISERFS(8)					    MKREISERFS(8)


NAME
       mkreiserfs - create a Linux Reiserfs file system

SYNOPSIS
       mkreiserfs  [  -h r5 | tea | rupasov ] [ -v 1 | 2 ] [ -q ]
       device [ size-in-blocks ]

DESCRIPTION
       It creates a Linux Reiserfs file system on a device  (usu-
       ally a disk partition).

       device is  the  special	file  corresponding to the device
	      (e.g /dev/hdXX for IDE disk partition or	/dev/sdXX
	      for SCSI disk partition).

       block-count
	      is  the number of blocks on the device. If omitted,
	      it will be determined by mkreiserfs  automatically.

OPTIONS
       -h r5 | tea | rupasov
	      This specifies the name of hash function file names
	      in directories will be sorted with. Choose  one  of
	      the above. 'r5' is default.

       -v 1 | 2
	      This specifies format new filsystem has to be of.

       -q     This  makes  the	progress  bar  much less verbose.
	      Useful when logged in via a slow link (e.g.  serial
	      console).

AUTHOR
       This version of mkreiserfs has been written by Hans Reiser
       <reiser@idiom.com>.

BUGS
       No other blocksizes but 4k are available.  Please,  report
       about other bugs to Hans Reiser <reiser@idiom.com>.

SEE ALSO
       reiserfsck(8), debugreiserfs(8)

