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.TH MKCRAMFS 8 "2001 February 22th" "KERNEL SOURCE" "Debian GNU/Linux Manual"
.SH NAME
mkcramfs \- make a compressed ROM file system

.SH SYNOPSIS
.B mkcramfs
.RB [ -h ]
.RB [ -b
.IR blksize ]
.RB [ -e
.IR edition ]
.RB [ -i
.IR file ]
.RB [ -n
.IR name ]
.I dirname outfile

.SH "DESCRIPTION"
This manual page documents briefly the
.B mkcramfs
command.
This manual page was written for the
.B Debian GNU/Linux
distribution (but may be used by others), because the original
program does not have a manual page.
.PP
.B mkcramfs
constructs a
.B CramFs
from the contents of
.IR dirname .
The image of the resulting file system is placed in
.IR outfile .

.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.B -h
Give a brief help message.

.TP
.B -E
Make all warnings errors (non-zero exit status).

.TP
.B -b \fIblksize
Set the block size of the generated file system.

.TP
.B -e \fIedition
Set the edition number (part of fsid).

.TP
.B -i \fIfile
Insert a file image into the filesystem (requires Linux >= 2.4.0).

.TP
.B -n \fIname
Set the name of the
.B CramFs
filesystem.

.TP
.B -p
Pad by 512 bytes for boot code.

.TP
.B -s
Sort directory entries (old option, ignored).

.TP
.B -v
Turn on verbose mode.

.TP
.B -z
Make explicit holes (requires Linux >= 2.3.39).

.SH AUTHOR
.B mkcramfs
is written by Linus Torvalds and Daniel Quinlan.  Manual page added by
Herbert Xu.