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| author | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2002-12-03 19:46:37 +0000 |
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| committer | Gerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2002-12-03 19:46:37 +0000 |
| commit | 9ce6d7a083ead3028d86bcc69dc34682dd587448 (patch) | |
| tree | 1f3d05a988ca0034e51e013d1a7ad535d134ad9b | |
| parent | 504cdc5decc1f0c9469f334b56f5265f1e8ec6e2 (diff) | |
added note to run mkswap
git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@2216 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter01/changelog.xml | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter03/creatingfs.xml | 9 |
2 files changed, 13 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml index e81983154..4853e0e1b 100644 --- a/chapter01/changelog.xml +++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml @@ -41,6 +41,10 @@ </itemizedlist> </para></listitem> +<listitem><para>December 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 03 - Creating +filesystem: Added a note that <userinput>mkswap</userinput> has to be run +if a new swap partition has been created.</para></listitem> + <listitem><para>December 3rd, 2002 [gerard]: Chapter 06 - Bzip2: Removed unnecesary lines that first create a symlink, then remove it again.</para></listitem> diff --git a/chapter03/creatingfs.xml b/chapter03/creatingfs.xml index d78db47db..269802ea9 100644 --- a/chapter03/creatingfs.xml +++ b/chapter03/creatingfs.xml @@ -16,5 +16,14 @@ url="http://beyond.linuxfromscratch.org/view/cvs/postlfs/filesystems.html"/>.</p <para>Replace <filename>xxx</filename> with the name of the LFS partition (something like <filename>hda5</filename>).</para> +<para>If you created a (new) swap partition you need to initialize it as a +swap partition too (also known as formatting, like you did above with +<userinput>mke2fs</userinput>) by running:</para> + +<para><screen><userinput>mkswap /dev/yyy</userinput></screen></para> + +<para>Replace <filename>yyy</filename> with the name of the swap +partition.</para> + </sect1> |