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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> |