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diff --git a/chapter02/creatingfilesystem.xml b/chapter02/creatingfilesystem.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000..3745679b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/chapter02/creatingfilesystem.xml @@ -0,0 +1,33 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> +<!DOCTYPE sect1 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; +]> +<sect1 id="space-creatingfilesystem"> +<title>Creating a file system on the new partition</title> +<?dbhtml filename="creatingfilesystem.html"?> + +<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> |