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authorTimothy Bauscher <timothy@linuxfromscratch.org>2002-09-12 20:08:36 +0000
committerTimothy Bauscher <timothy@linuxfromscratch.org>2002-09-12 20:08:36 +0000
commit2d2898e8b96465059074ac7264a1b8d4e506bda0 (patch)
tree429b776d33d0770f2e27b550f7bbf6660da29da8
parentf600ad8dfa5fcffe7e8307e5d9b023aee09d10f9 (diff)
Referenced alternative filesystems in BLFS
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2093 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
-rw-r--r--chapter01/changelog.xml3
-rw-r--r--chapter03/creatingfs.xml10
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 65a584446..f507429bb 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -54,6 +54,9 @@
</itemizedlist>
</para></listitem>
+<listitem><para>September 12th, 2002 [timothy]: Chapter 04 - Creating a
+file system: Referenced alternative filesystems in BLFS.</para></listitem>
+
<listitem><para>September 12th, 2002 [gerard]: Removed all superfluous
<filename>/usr/lib/*.so</filename> symbolic links from library
installations.</para></listitem>
diff --git a/chapter03/creatingfs.xml b/chapter03/creatingfs.xml
index 9f8dd63f9..ec3043a2e 100644
--- a/chapter03/creatingfs.xml
+++ b/chapter03/creatingfs.xml
@@ -3,11 +3,11 @@
<?dbhtml filename="creatingfs.html" dir="chapter04"?>
<para>Once the partition is created, we have to create a new file system on
-that partition. The standard file system used these days is the ext2
-file system, but the so-called journaling file systems are becoming
-increasingly popular too. It's of course up to you to decide which file
-system you want to create, but because we have to assume and work with
-something, we will assume you chose the ext2 file system.</para>
+that partition. The standard file system used these days is the ext2 file
+system, but the so-called journaling file systems are becoming increasingly
+popular too. We'll assume that you wish to create an ext2 file system.
+However, build instructions for other file systems may be found at
+<ulink url="http://beyond.linuxfromscratch.org/view/cvs/postlfs/filesystems.html"/>.</para>
<para>To create an ext2 file system, use the mke2fs command. The LFS partition
is used as the only option to the command and the file system is created.</para>