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This page documents the Alpine Linux supported filesystems needed for various storage media.

Overview

The following table lists the packages related to various filesystems available in Alpine Linux along with the command to format.

Tool	Filesystem	Formatting command	Brief Notes
btrfs-progs	Btrfs	mkfs.btrfs	combines copy-on-write and volume management
dosfstools	FAT12/FAT16/FAT32	mkfs.vfat	also used for EFI partition
e2fsprogs	ext2/ext3/ext4	mkfs.ext4	ext4 is current default in Linux
exfatprogs	exfat	mkfs.exfat	Commonly used on USB flash drives and SD cards
f2fs-tools	F2FS	mkfs.f2fs
hfsprogs	HFS/HFS+	mkfs.hfsplus	Apple/Mac products
jfsutils	JFS	mkfs.jfs
ntfs-3g	NTFS	mkfs.ntfs	Full-featured, Microsoft/Windows FUSE driver
squashfs-tools	SquashFS	mksquashfs	compressed read-only file system
xfsprogs	XFS	mkfs.xfs

Filesystem tools

Different packages/programs are used to format different types of filesystems. The filesystem tools and the formatting commands are listed above.

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-[[Category:Storage]]
+This page documents the Alpine Linux supported filesystems needed for various storage media.
-Documentation how to use the Alpine distro to format HD/Floppy/Other.
-== Install ==
+== Overview ==
-Alpine has multiple storage media formatting packages available. Different packages/programs are used to format different types of filesystems.
-* {{Pkg|dosfstools}} - For FAT12/FAT16/FAT32
-* reiserfsprogs - For ReiserFS (Note: not available in Alpine repositories yet)
-* {{Pkg|e2fsprogs}} - For ext3/ext4
-* {{Pkg|xfsprogs}} - For XFS
-* {{Pkg|jfsutils}} - For JFS
-* {{Pkg|ntfs-3g}} - For NTFS (Note: ntfs-3g is a FUSE driver)
-In our example we want to format the floppy as vfat.
+The following table lists the packages related to various filesystems available in Alpine Linux along with the '''command''' to format.
-{{Cmd|apk add dosfstools}}
+<onlyinclude>
+{| class="wikitable" align="center" style="width:100%; border:1px #0771a6 solid; background:#f9f9f9; text-align:left; border-collapse:collapse;"
+|-style="background:#333333; color:#ffffff; font-size: 1.2em; text-align:center;"
+|width="18%" | Tool
+|width="18%"| Filesystem
+|width="15%"|Formatting command
+|Brief Notes
+|-
+|{{Pkg|btrfs-progs}}||[[Btrfs]]||mkfs.btrfs|| combines copy-on-write and volume management
+|-
+|{{Pkg|dosfstools}} ||FAT12/FAT16/FAT32||mkfs.vfat||also used for [[UEFI|EFI]] partition
+|-
+|{{Pkg|e2fsprogs}} ||ext2/ext3/ext4||mkfs.ext4||ext4 is current default in Linux
+|-
+|{{Pkg|exfatprogs}} ||exfat||mkfs.exfat||Commonly used on USB flash drives and SD cards
+|-
+|{{Pkg|f2fs-tools}} ||[[F2FS]]||mkfs.f2fs||
+|-
+|{{Pkg|hfsprogs}} ||HFS/HFS+||mkfs.hfsplus||Apple/Mac products
+|-
+|{{Pkg|jfsutils}} ||JFS||mkfs.jfs||
+|-
+|{{Pkg|ntfs-3g}} ||NTFS ||mkfs.ntfs||Full-featured, Microsoft/Windows FUSE driver
+|-
+|{{Pkg|squashfs-tools}} ||[[SquashFS]]||mksquashfs||compressed read-only file system
+|-
+|{{Pkg|xfsprogs}} ||XFS||mkfs.xfs||
+|}</onlyinclude>
-== Format ==
+== Filesystem tools ==
-Here are some examples on how to use the formatting tools:
-=== dosfstools ===
+Different packages/programs are used to format different types of filesystems. The filesystem tools and the formatting commands are listed [[#Overview|above]].
-{{Cmd|mkfs.vfat /dev/fd0}}
-=== e2fsprogs ===
+== See also ==
-{{Cmd|mkfs.ext2 /dev/fd0
+* [[Setting_up_disks_manually#Manual_partitioning|Manual partitioning]]
-mkfs.ext3 /dev/fd0}}
+* [https://www.nico.schottelius.org/blog/2024-10-10-how-to-enable-encrypted-swap-in-alpine-linux/ How to enable encrypted swap in Alpine Linux]
-== Other devices ==
+[[Category:Storage]]
-In our case we want to format a floppy disk. (/dev/fd0) You can change /dev/fd0 to the device you want to format.
+[[Category:Installation]]
+[[Category:Filesystems]]
-== Partitions ==
-If you need to change or make a partition table on a Hard Drive you want to format, you can use:
-=== fdisk ===
-{{Cmd|fdisk /dev/hdc}}