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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 New 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 | <systemitem class="filesystem">second extended file
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| 13 | system</systemitem> (ext2), but with the newer high-capacity hard
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| 14 | disks, the journaling file systems are becoming increasingly popular.
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| 15 | Here we will create an ext2 file system, but build instructions for
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| 16 | other file systems can be found at <ulink
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| 17 | url="&blfs-root;view/stable/postlfs/filesystems.html"/>.</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>hda5</filename> in our previous example).</para>
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| 25 |
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| 26 | <para>If a swap partition was created, it will need to be initialized
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| 27 | as a swap partition too (also known as formatting, as described above
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| 28 | with mke2fs) by running the following. If you are using an existing
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| 29 | swap parition you do not need to format it.</para>
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| 30 |
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| 31 | <screen><userinput>mkswap /dev/<replaceable>[yyy]</replaceable></userinput></screen>
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| 32 |
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| 33 | <para>Replace <replaceable>[yyy]</replaceable> with the name of the swap
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| 34 | partition.</para>
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| 35 |
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| 36 | </sect1>
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