Filesystems

Documentation how to use the Alpine distro to format HD/Floppy/Other.

Install

Alpine has multiple storage media formatting packages available. Different packages/programs are used to format different types of filesystems.

• btrfs-progs - For BTRFS
• dosfstools - For FAT12/FAT16/FAT32
• e2fsprogs - For ext3/ext4
• f2fs-tools - For F2FS
• jfsutils - For JFS
• ntfs-3g - For NTFS (Note: ntfs-3g is a FUSE driver)
• xfsprogs - For XFS

Format

Here are some examples on how to use the formatting tools:

Note: /dev/sda1 is used as a example

dosfstools

mkfs.vfat /dev/sda1

e2fsprogs

mkfs.ext2 /dev/sda1 mkfs.ext3 /dev/sda1 mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1

btrfs-progs

mkfs.btrfs /dev/sda1

Partitions

If you need to change or make a partition table on a Hard Drive you want to format, you can use:

fdisk

# fdisk /dev/sda

cfdisk

# cfdisk /dev/sda