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| 2 | <!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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| 3 | "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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| 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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| 5 | %general-entities;
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| 6 | ]>
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| 8 | <sect1 id="ch-partitioning-creatingfilesystem">
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| 9 | <?dbhtml filename="creatingfilesystem.html"?>
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| 10 |
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| 11 | <title>Creating a File System on the Partition</title>
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| 12 |
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| 13 | <para>Now that a blank partition has been set up, the file system can be
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| 14 | created. LFS can use any file system recognized by the Linux kernel, but the
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| 15 | most common types are ext3 and ext4. The choice of file system can be
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| 16 | complex and depends on the characteristics of the files and the size of
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| 17 | the partition. For example:</para>
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| 18 |
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| 19 | <variablelist>
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| 20 | <varlistentry>
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| 21 | <term>ext2</term>
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| 22 | <listitem><para>is suitable for small partitions that are updated infrequently
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| 23 | such as /boot.</para>
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| 24 | </listitem>
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| 25 | </varlistentry>
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| 26 | <varlistentry>
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| 27 | <term>ext3</term>
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| 28 | <listitem><para>is an upgrade to ext2 that includes a journal
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| 29 | to help recover the partition's status in the case of an unclean
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| 30 | shutdown. It is commonly used as a general purpose file system.
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| 31 | </para>
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| 32 | </listitem>
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| 33 | </varlistentry>
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| 34 | <varlistentry>
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| 35 | <term>ext4</term>
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| 36 | <listitem><para>is the latest version of the ext file system family of
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| 37 | partition types. It provides several new capabilities including
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| 38 | nano-second timestamps, creation and use of very large files (16 TB), and
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| 39 | speed improvements.</para>
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| 40 | </listitem>
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| 41 | </varlistentry>
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| 42 | </variablelist>
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| 43 |
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| 44 | <para>Other file systems, including FAT32, NTFS, ReiserFS, JFS, and XFS are
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| 45 | useful for specialized purposes. More information about these file systems
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| 46 | can be found at <ulink
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| 47 | url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_file_systems"/>.</para>
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| 48 |
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| 49 | <para>LFS assumes that the root file system (/) is of type ext4. To create
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| 50 | an <systemitem class="filesystem">ext4</systemitem> file system on the LFS
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| 51 | partition, run the following:</para>
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| 52 |
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| 53 | <screen role="nodump"><userinput>mkfs -v -t ext4 /dev/<replaceable><xxx></replaceable></userinput></screen>
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| 54 |
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| 55 | <para>Replace <replaceable><xxx></replaceable> with the name of the LFS
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| 56 | partition.</para>
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| 57 |
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| 58 | <para>If you are using an existing <systemitem class="filesystem">swap
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| 59 | </systemitem> partition, there is no need to format it. If a new
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| 60 | <systemitem class="filesystem"> swap</systemitem> partition was created,
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| 61 | it will need to be initialized with this command:</para>
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| 62 |
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| 63 | <screen role="nodump"><userinput>mkswap /dev/<replaceable><yyy></replaceable></userinput></screen>
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| 64 |
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| 65 | <para>Replace <replaceable><yyy></replaceable> with the name of the
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| 66 | <systemitem class="filesystem">swap</systemitem> partition.</para>
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| 67 |
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| 68 | </sect1>
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