On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 10:20:02AM -0500, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > In general, I generally recommend that people use /sbin/mkfs.ext4 or > /sbin/mke2fs -t ext4, because the mkfs wrapper doesn't add much value, > and it gets confusing which options are parameters are grabbed by > mkfs, and which will get passed to the back-end mkfs program. Yes, the first sentence in the DESCRIPTION section: This mkfs frontend is deprecated in favour of filesystem specific mkfs.<type> utils. Karel -- Karel Zak <kzak@xxxxxxxxxx> http://karelzak.blogspot.com