On Fri, Jan 04, 2013 at 08:42:21PM +0530, KASHISH BHATIA wrote: > Hi, > > I want to trace the overall flow of mkfs inside linux kernel. Specifically > want to know which > kernel fs data structures are affected when we run "mkfs" ? > What all "mkfs" command writes on the block device when we run the command? > Are there any good documents which can explain the same? To trace the syscalls a program issues, I recommend using strace. Thanks, Jonathan Neuschäfer _______________________________________________ Kernelnewbies mailing list Kernelnewbies@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.kernelnewbies.org/mailman/listinfo/kernelnewbies