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From: erik quanstrom <quanstro@quanstro.net>
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 07:50:08 -0400
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Subject: Re: [9fans] dcp - a deep copy script, better than dircp
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> & [what] does mkext stand for), and

make extract, i assume.

>
> 	file /bin/mkfs
> 	/bin/mkfs: cannot open: '/bin/mkfs' file does not exist
>
> Dude, like, huh?

you must have missed the first few lines of the man page

          disk/mkfs [-aprvxU] [-d root] [-n name] [-s source] [-u
          users] [-z n] proto ...

          disk/mkext [-d name] [-u] [-h] [-v] [-x] [-T] file ...

this means mkfs is in /bin/disk plan 9 uses subdirectories
in /bin.  actually in the fs, mkfs is in the directory
/$objtype/bin/disk/

- erik