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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 | <para arch="raq2">If you used the partition scheme that was recommended, here are the
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| 36 | commands you can use to format the necessary drives:</para>
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| 37 |
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| 38 | <screen arch="raq2"><userinput>mke2fs -r 0 /dev/hda1
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| 39 | mke2fs /dev/hda2
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| 40 | mkswap /dev/hda3</userinput></screen>
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| 41 |
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| 42 | </sect1>
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| 43 |
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