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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. It's of course up to you to decide which file
- system you want to create, but because we have to assume and work with
- something, we will assume you chose the ext2 file system.</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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