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3 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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4 | %general-entities;
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5 | ]>
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6 | <sect1 id="space-creatingfilesystem">
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7 | <title>Creating a File System on the Partition</title>
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8 | <?dbhtml filename="creatingfilesystem.html"?>
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9 |
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10 | <para>Now that a blank partition has been set up, the file system can
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11 | be created. The most widely-used system in the Linux world is the
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12 | second extended file system (ext2), but with newer high-capacity
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13 | hard disks, journaling file systems are becoming increasingly
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14 | popular. We will create an ext2 file system. Build instructions for other file
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15 | systems can be found at <ulink
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16 | url="&blfs-root;view/svn/postlfs/filesystems.html"><phrase
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17 | condition="pdf">&blfs-root;view/svn/ postlfs/filesystems.html</phrase></ulink>.</para>
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18 |
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19 | <para>To create an ext2 file system on the LFS partition, run the following:</para>
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20 |
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21 | <screen><userinput>mke2fs /dev/<replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable></userinput></screen>
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22 |
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23 | <para>Replace <replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable> with the name of the LFS
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24 | partition (<filename class="devicefile">hda5</filename> in our previous example).</para>
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25 |
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26 | <note><para>Some host distributions use custom features in their filesystem
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27 | creation tools (e2fsprogs). This can cause problems when booting into your new
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28 | LFS in Chapter 9, as those features will not be supported by the LFS-installed
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29 | e2fsprogs; you will get an error similar to <quote>unsupported filesystem
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30 | features, upgrade your e2fsprogs</quote>. To check if your host system
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31 | uses custom enhancements, run the following command:</para>
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32 |
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33 | <screen><userinput>debugfs -R feature /dev/<replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable></userinput></screen>
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34 |
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35 | <para>If the output contains features other than: dir_index; filetype;
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36 | large_file; resize_inode or sparse_super then your host system may have custom
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37 | enhancements. In that case, to avoid later problems, you should compile the
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38 | stock e2fsprogs package and use the resulting binaries to re-create the
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39 | filesystem on your LFS partition:</para>
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40 |
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41 | <screen><userinput>cd /tmp
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42 | tar xjf /path/to/sources/e2fsprogs-&e2fsprogs-version;.tar.bz2
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43 | cd e2fsprogs-&e2fsprogs-version;
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44 | mkdir build
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45 | cd build
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46 | ../configure
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47 | make #note that we intentionally don't 'make install' here!
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48 | ./misc/mke2fs /dev/<replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable>
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49 | cd /tmp
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50 | rm -rf e2fsprogs-&e2fsprogs-version;</userinput></screen>
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51 | </note>
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52 |
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53 | <para>If a swap partition was created, it will need to be initialized for use by
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54 | issuing the command below. If you are using an existing swap partition, there is
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55 | no need to format it.</para>
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56 |
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57 | <screen><userinput>mkswap /dev/<replaceable>[yyy]</replaceable></userinput></screen>
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58 |
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59 | <para>Replace <replaceable>[yyy]</replaceable> with the name of the swap
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60 | partition.</para>
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61 |
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62 | </sect1>
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63 |
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