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- <sect1 id="ch04-creatingfs">
- <title>Creating a file system on the new partition</title>
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- <para>Once the partition is created, we have to create a new file system on
- that partition. The standard file system used these days is the ext2 file
- system, but the so-called journaling file systems are becoming increasingly
- popular too. We'll assume that you wish to create an ext2 file system.
- However, build instructions for other file systems may be found at
- <ulink url="http://beyond.linuxfromscratch.org/view/cvs/postlfs/filesystems.html"/>.</para>
- <para>To create an ext2 file system, use the mke2fs command. The LFS partition
- is used as the only option to the command and the file system is created.</para>
- <para><screen><userinput>mke2fs /dev/xxx</userinput></screen></para>
- <para>Replace "xxx" by the partition's designation (like hda11).</para>
- </sect1>
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