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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</title>
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| 8 | <?dbhtml filename="creatingfilesystem.html"?>
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| 9 |
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| 10 | <para>Now that we have a blank partition, we can create a file system on it.
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| 11 | Most widely used in the Linux world is the second extended file system (ext2),
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| 12 | but with the high-capacity hard disks of today the so-called journaling file
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| 13 | systems are becoming increasingly popular. Here we will create an ext2 file
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| 14 | system, but build instructions for other file systems can be found at
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| 15 | <ulink url="&blfs-root;view/stable/postlfs/filesystems.html"/>.</para>
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| 16 |
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| 17 | <para>To create an ext2 file system on the LFS partition run the following:</para>
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| 18 |
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| 19 | <screen><userinput>mke2fs /dev/<replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable></userinput></screen>
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| 20 |
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| 21 | <para>Replace <replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable> with the name of the LFS partition
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| 22 | (something like <filename>hda5</filename>).</para>
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| 23 |
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| 24 | <para>If you created a (new) swap partition you need to initialize it as a
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| 25 | swap partition too (also known as formatting, like you did above with
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| 26 | <command>mke2fs</command>) by running:</para>
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| 27 |
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| 28 | <screen><userinput>mkswap /dev/<replaceable>[yyy]</replaceable></userinput></screen>
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| 29 |
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| 30 | <para>Replace <replaceable>[yyy]</replaceable> with the name of the swap
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| 31 | partition.</para>
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| 32 |
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| 33 | </sect1>
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