Changeset f001ece

Timestamp:

09/24/2022 10:48:50 AM (19 months ago)

Author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…>

Branches:

11.3, 11.3-rc1, 12.0, 12.0-rc1, 12.1, 12.1-rc1, bdubbs/gcc13, multilib, renodr/libudev-from-systemd, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/arm64-12.0, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.0, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/mips64el, xry111/pip3, xry111/rust-wip-20221008, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

ad9fbd1

Parents:

2ed0e93

Message:

creatingfilesystem: Refine the condition where a FS is needed

For example, a swap partition does not contain any FS. And, if you want
to clone a partition, you can use

dd if=/dev/<old-partition> of=/dev/<new-partition>

then it's unnecessary to create a FS on new-partition before operation.
This is sometimes faster than creating a new FS, mounting both
partition, then "cp -av" if the old-partition contains many small files.

File:

• chapter02/creatingfilesystem.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter02/creatingfilesystem.xml

@@ -13 +13 @@
   <para>A partition is just a range of sectors on a disk drive, delimited by
   boundaries set in a partition table. Before the operating system can use
-  a blank partition, the partition must be formatted to contain a file
+  a partition to store any files, the partition must be formatted to contain a file
   system, typically consisting of a label, directory blocks, data blocks, and
   an indexing scheme to locate a particular file on demand. The file system