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2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
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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 the newer high-capacity
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13 | hard disks, the journaling file systems are becoming increasingly
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14 | popular. Here we will create an ext2 file system, but build
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15 | instructions for other file systems can be found at <ulink
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16 | url="&blfs-root;view/svn/postlfs/filesystems.html"/>.</para>
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17 |
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18 | <para>To create an ext2 file system on the LFS partition, run the following:</para>
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19 |
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20 | <screen><userinput>mke2fs /dev/<replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable></userinput></screen>
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21 |
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22 | <para>Replace <replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable> with the name of the LFS
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23 | partition (<filename class="devicefile">hda5</filename> in our previous example).</para>
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24 |
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25 | <para>If a swap partition was created, it will need to be initialized
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26 | as a swap partition too (also known as formatting, as described above
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27 | with <command>mke2fs</command>) by running the following. If you are using an existing
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28 | swap partition, there is no need to format it.</para>
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29 |
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30 | <screen><userinput>mkswap /dev/<replaceable>[yyy]</replaceable></userinput></screen>
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31 |
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32 | <para>Replace <replaceable>[yyy]</replaceable> with the name of the swap
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33 | partition.</para>
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34 |
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35 | </sect1>
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36 |
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