mkfs vs mke2fs

From: Ron Nath (rnath@sdn6.med.yale.edu)
Date: Mon Aug 16 1999 - 14:50:24 EDT


I just created new partitions on hdb of type:
hdb1 - primary
hdb2 - extended
 hdb5 - logical
 hdb6 - logical

I was able to make the filesystem of on hdb1 using
mkfs -t ext2 /dev/hdb1

For the logical partitions Im not sure if I can do the same thing
mkfs -t ext2 /dev/hdb5
mkfs -t ext2 /dev/hdb6

or whether I should use
mke2fs -t ext2 /dev/hdb2 and it will do it for both logical drives.

I guess after reading the man pages Im still not clear on the difference
between mkfs and mke2fs and when each should be used.
And I regret not being able to make the talk given on the linux
filesytem and such.
Thanks.

--
Ron Nath
Center for Medical Informatics
Yale University



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