lfs-book/chapter03/creatingfs.sgml

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<title>Creating a ext2 file system on the new partition</title>

<para>
Once the partition is created, we have to create a new ext2 file system on
that partition. To create a new ext2 file system we use the mke2fs command.
Enter the new partition as the only option and the file system will be
created. If your partition is hda11, you would run:
</para>

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	<userinput>mke2fs /dev/hda11</userinput>

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