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<para>Now that a file system has been created, the partition needs to
be made accessible. In order to do this, the partition needs to be
mounted at a chosen mount point. For the purposes of this book, it is
- assumed that the file system is mounted under <filename
- class="directory">/mnt/lfs</filename>, but the directory choice is up
- to you.</para>
+ assumed that the file system is mounted under the directory specified by the
+ <envar>LFS</envar> envronment varibale as described in the previous section.
+ </para>
- <para>Choose a mount point and assign it to the <envar>LFS</envar>
- environment variable by running:</para>
-
-<screen role="nodump"><userinput>export LFS=/mnt/lfs</userinput></screen>
-
- <para>Next, create the mount point and mount the LFS file system by
- running:</para>
+ <para>Create the mount point and mount the LFS file system by running:</para>
<screen role="nodump"><userinput>mkdir -pv $LFS
mount -v -t ext4 /dev/<replaceable>&lt;xxx&gt;</replaceable> $LFS</userinput></screen>