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diff --git a/chapter02/creatingfilesystem.xml b/chapter02/creatingfilesystem.xml index 489153e23..f013b9dec 100644 --- a/chapter02/creatingfilesystem.xml +++ b/chapter02/creatingfilesystem.xml @@ -7,6 +7,30 @@ <title>Creating a File System on the Partition</title> <?dbhtml filename="creatingfilesystem.html"?> -<para>See testing</para> +<para>Now that a blank partition has been set up, the file system can +be created. The most widely-used system in the Linux world is the +second extended file system (ext2), but with the newer high-capacity +hard disks, the 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/svn/postlfs/filesystems.html"/>.</para> + +<para>To create an ext2 file system on the LFS partition, run the following:</para> + +<screen><userinput>mke2fs /dev/<replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable></userinput></screen> + +<para>Replace <replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable> with the name of the LFS +partition (<filename class="devicefile">hda5</filename> in our previous example).</para> + +<para>If a swap partition was created, it will need to be initialized +as a swap partition too (also known as formatting, as described above +with <command>mke2fs</command>) by running the following. If you are using an existing +swap partition, there is no need to format it.</para> + +<screen><userinput>mkswap /dev/<replaceable>[yyy]</replaceable></userinput></screen> + +<para>Replace <replaceable>[yyy]</replaceable> with the name of the swap +partition.</para> </sect1> + |