MAKEDEV is a script that will create the devices in /dev used to interface with drivers in the kernel. This man page is woefully out of date. A large number of devices are supported that are not docum...
mandb is used to initialise or manually update index database caches that are usually maintained by man. The caches contain information relevant to the current state of the manual page system and the ...
This utility checks or sets the status of a network interface's Media Independent Interface (MII) unit. Most fast ethernet adapters use an MII to autonegotiate link speed and duplex setting. Most int...
mkboot makes a bootdisk. By default the bootdisk will use the kernel /boot/vmlinuz and the current root partition. Use the -r option to specify a different parition, and provide the new kernel file di...
mkdosfs is used to create an MS-DOS file system under Linux on a device (usually a disk partition). device is the special file corresponding to the device (e.g /dev/hdXX). block-count is the number of...
mke2fs is used to create a Linux second extended file system on a device (usually a disk partition). device is the special file corresponding to the device (e.g /dev/hdXX). blocks-count is the number ...
mkfs is used to build a Linux file system on a device, usually a hard disk partition. filesys is either the device name (e.g. /dev/hda1, /dev/sdb2) or the mount point (e.g. /, /usr, /home) for the fil...
mke2fs is used to create a Linux second extended file system on a device (usually a disk partition). device is the special file corresponding to the device (e.g /dev/hdXX). blocks-count is the number ...
mke2fs is used to create a Linux second extended file system on a device (usually a disk partition). device is the special file corresponding to the device (e.g /dev/hdXX). blocks-count is the number ...
mkfs.minix creates a Linux MINIX file-system on a device (usually a disk partition). The device is usually of the following form: /dev/hda[1-8] (IDE disk 1) /dev/hdb[1-8] (IDE disk 2) /dev/sda[1-8] (S...
mklost+found is used to create a lost+found directory in the current working directory on a Linux second extended file system. There is normally a lost+found directory in the root directory of each fi...
mknetid generates the netid.byname NIS map from the contents of the group(5), passwd(5), hosts(5) and netid files. It checks for multiple entrys of netids and warn for them or filters them out. It is ...
mkswap sets up a Linux swap area on a device or in a file. (After creating the swap area, you need the swapon command to start using it. Usually swap areas are listed in /etc/fstab so that they can be...
