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author | Matthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2004-05-03 10:59:46 +0000 |
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committer | Matthew Burgess <matthew@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2004-05-03 10:59:46 +0000 |
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diff --git a/chapter02/chapter02.xml b/chapter02/chapter02.xml index e1e6e74ec..29d349029 100644 --- a/chapter02/chapter02.xml +++ b/chapter02/chapter02.xml @@ -1,135 +1,24 @@ -<chapter id="chapter-making-space" xreflabel="Chapter 2"> +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> +<!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [ + <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent"> + %general-entities; +]> +<chapter id="chapter-partitioning" xreflabel="Chapter 2"> +<?dbhtml dir="chapter02"?> <title>Preparing a new partition</title> -<?dbhtml filename="chapter02.html" dir="chapter02"?> +<?dbhtml filename="chapter02.html"?> -<sect1 id="space-introduction"> -<title>Introduction</title> -<?dbhtml filename="introduction.html" dir="chapter02"?> +<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="introduction.xml"/> -<para>In this chapter the partition which will host the LFS system is -prepared. We will create the partition itself, make a file system on it, -and mount it.</para> -</sect1> +<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="creatingpartition.xml"/> -<sect1 id="space-creatingpartition"> -<title>Creating a new partition</title> -<?dbhtml filename="creatingpartition.html" dir="chapter02"?> +<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="creatingfilesystem.xml"/> -<para>In order to build our new Linux system, we will need some space: -an empty disk partition. If you don't have a free partition, and no room -on any of your hard disks to make one, then you could build LFS on the -same partition as the one on which your current distribution is installed. -This procedure is not recommended for your first LFS install, but if you -are short on disk space, and you feel brave, take a look at the hint at -<ulink url="&hints-root;lfs_next_to_existing_systems.txt"/>.</para> -<para>For a minimal system you will need a partition of around 1.2 GB. -This is enough to store all the source tarballs and compile all the packages. -But if you intend to use the LFS system as your primary Linux system, you -will probably want to install additional software, and will need more space -than this, probably around 2 or 3 GB.</para> - -<para>As we almost never have enough RAM in our box, it is a good idea to -use a small disk partition as swap space -- this space is used by the kernel -to store seldom-used data to make room in memory for more urgent stuff. -The swap partition for your LFS system can be the same one as for your host -system, so you won't have to create another if your host system already uses -a swap partition.</para> - -<para>Start a disk partitioning program such as <command>cfdisk</command> -or <command>fdisk</command> with an argument naming the hard disk upon -which the new partition must be created -- for example -<filename>/dev/hda</filename> for the primary IDE disk. Create a Linux native -partition and a swap partition, if needed. Please refer to the man pages of -<command>cfdisk</command> or <command>fdisk</command> if you don't yet -know how to use the programs.</para> - -<para>Remember the designation of your new partition -- something like -<filename>hda5</filename>. This book will refer to it as the LFS partition. -If you (now) also have a swap partition, remember its designation too. These -names will later be needed for the <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> file.</para> - -</sect1> - - -<sect1 id="space-creatingfilesystem"> -<title>Creating a file system on the new partition</title> -<?dbhtml filename="creatingfilesystem.html" dir="chapter02"?> - -<para>Now that we have a blank partition, we can create a file system on it. -Most widely used in the Linux world is the second extended file system (ext2), -but with the high-capacity hard disks of today the so-called journaling -file systems are becoming increasingly popular. Here we will create an ext2 -file system, but build instructions for other file systems can be found at -<ulink url="&blfs-root;view/stable/postlfs/filesystems.html"/>.</para> - -<para>To create an ext2 file system on the LFS partition run the following:</para> - -<screen><userinput>mke2fs /dev/xxx</userinput></screen> - -<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 -<command>mke2fs</command>) by running:</para> - -<screen><userinput>mkswap /dev/yyy</userinput></screen> - -<para>Replace <filename>yyy</filename> with the name of the swap -partition.</para> - -</sect1> - - -<sect1 id="space-mounting"> -<title>Mounting the new partition</title> -<?dbhtml filename="mounting.html" dir="chapter02"?> - -<para>Now that we've created a file system, we want to be able to access -the partition. For that, we need to mount it, and have to choose a mount -point. In this book we assume that the file system is mounted under -<filename>/mnt/lfs</filename>, but it doesn't matter what directory -you choose.</para> - -<para>Choose a mount point and assign it to the LFS environment variable -by running:</para> - -<screen><userinput>export LFS=/mnt/lfs</userinput></screen> - -<para>Now create the mount point and mount the LFS file system by running:</para> - -<screen><userinput>mkdir -p $LFS -mount /dev/xxx $LFS</userinput></screen> - -<para>Replace <filename>xxx</filename> with the designation of the LFS -partition.</para> - -<para>If you have decided to use multiple partitions for LFS (say one for -<filename>/</filename> and another for <filename>/usr</filename>), mount -them like this:</para> - -<screen><userinput>mkdir -p $LFS -mount /dev/xxx $LFS -mkdir $LFS/usr -mount /dev/yyy $LFS/usr</userinput></screen> - -<para>Of course, replace <filename>xxx</filename> and <filename>yyy</filename> -with the appropriate partition names.</para> - -<para>You should also ensure that this new partition is not mounted with -permissions that are too restrictive (such as the nosuid, nodev or noatime -options). You can run the <command>mount</command> command without any -parameters to see with what options the LFS partition is mounted. If -you see nosuid, nodev or noatime, you will need to remount it.</para> - -<para>Now that we've made ourselves a place to work in, we're ready to download -the packages.</para> - -</sect1> +<xi:include xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2003/XInclude" href="mounting.xml"/> </chapter> |