Changeset c093e6b for chapter02/mounting.xml

Timestamp:

10/01/2022 10:30:12 PM (19 months ago)

Author:

Thomas Trepl (Moody) <thomas@…>

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multilib

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f29824e (diff), 4349661 (diff)
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Automatic merge of trunk into multilib

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• chapter02/mounting.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

chapter02/mounting.xml

@@ -11 +11 @@
   <title>Mounting the New Partition</title>
 
-  <para>Now that a file system has been created, the partition needs to
-  be made accessible. In order to do this, the partition needs to be
-  mounted at a chosen mount point. For the purposes of this book, it is
-  assumed that the file system is mounted under the directory specified by the
-  <envar>LFS</envar> environment variable as described in the previous section.
+  <para>Now that a file system has been created, the partition must
+  be mounted so the host system can access it. This book assumes that
+  the file system is mounted at the directory specified by the
+  <envar>LFS</envar> environment variable described in the previous section.
   </para>
+  
+  <para>Strictly speaking, one cannot "mount a partition". One mounts the <emphasis>file
+  system</emphasis> embedded in that partition. But since a single partition can't contain
+  more than one file system, people often speak of the partition and the
+  associated file system as if they were one and the same.</para>
 
-  <para>Create the mount point and mount the LFS file system by running:</para>
+  <para>Create the mount point and mount the LFS file system with these commands:</para>
 
 <screen role="nodump"><userinput>mkdir -pv $LFS
 mount -v -t ext4 /dev/<replaceable>&lt;xxx&gt;</replaceable> $LFS</userinput></screen>
 
-  <para>Replace <replaceable>&lt;xxx&gt;</replaceable> with the designation of the LFS
+  <para>Replace <replaceable>&lt;xxx&gt;</replaceable> with the name of the LFS
   partition.</para>
 
-  <para>If using multiple partitions for LFS (e.g., one for <filename
-  class="directory">/</filename> and another for <filename
-  class="directory">/home</filename>), mount them using:</para>
+  <para>If you are using multiple partitions for LFS (e.g., one for
+  <filename class="directory">/</filename> and another for <filename
+  class="directory">/home</filename>), mount them like this:</para>
 
 <screen role="nodump"><userinput>mkdir -pv $LFS
@@ -44 +48 @@
   without any parameters to see what options are set for the mounted LFS
   partition. If <option>nosuid</option> and/or <option>nodev</option> are set,
-  the partition will need to be remounted.</para>
+  the partition must be remounted.</para>
 
-  <warning><para>The above instructions assume that you will not be restarting
+  <warning><para>The above instructions assume that you will not restart
   your computer throughout the LFS process.  If you shut down your system,
   you will either need to remount the LFS partition each time you restart
-  the build process or modify your host system's /etc/fstab file to automatically
-  remount it upon boot.  For example:
+  the build process, or modify the host system's &fstab; file to automatically
+  remount it when you reboot. For example, you might add this line to your 
+  &fstab; file:
 
 <screen role="nodump">/dev/<replaceable>&lt;xxx&gt;</replaceable>  /mnt/lfs ext4   defaults      1     1</screen>
@@ -68 +73 @@
   <systemitem class="filesystem">swap</systemitem> partition.</para>
 
-  <para>Now that there is an established place to work, it is time to
+  <para>Now that the new LFS partition is open for business, it's time to
   download the packages.</para>