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author | Alex Gronenwoud <alex@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-11-05 22:26:39 +0000 |
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committer | Alex Gronenwoud <alex@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2003-11-05 22:26:39 +0000 |
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Merging chapter 3 files.
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diff --git a/chapter03/creatingfs.xml b/chapter03/creatingfs.xml deleted file mode 100644 index f2cb68898..000000000 --- a/chapter03/creatingfs.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,29 +0,0 @@ -<sect1 id="ch03-creatingfs"> -<title>Creating a file system on the new partition</title> -<?dbhtml filename="creatingfs.html" dir="chapter03"?> - -<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 -<userinput>mke2fs</userinput>) by running:</para> - -<screen><userinput>mkswap /dev/yyy</userinput></screen> - -<para>Replace <filename>yyy</filename> with the name of the swap -partition.</para> - -</sect1> - |