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authorGerard Beekmans <gerard@linuxfromscratch.org>2001-02-15 15:26:52 +0000
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+<sect1 id="ch04-creatingfs">
+<title>Creating a ext2 file system on the new partition</title>
+
+<para>
+Once the partition is created, we have to create a new ext2 file system on
+that partition. To create a new ext2 file system we use the mke2fs command.
+Enter the new partition as the only option and the file system will be
+created. If your partition is hda11, you would run:
+</para>
+
+<blockquote><literallayout>
+
+ <userinput>mke2fs /dev/hda11</userinput>
+
+</literallayout></blockquote>
+
+</sect1>
+