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- <sect1 id="space-creatingfilesystem">
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- <title>Creating a File System on the Partition</title>
- <para>Now that a blank partition has been set up, the file system can be created.
- The most widely-used system in the Linux world is the second extended file
- system (<systemitem class="filesystem">ext2</systemitem>), but with newer
- high-capacity hard disks, journaling file systems are becoming increasingly
- popular. The third extended filesystem (<systemitem
- class="filesystem">ext3</systemitem>) is a widely used enhancement to
- <systemitem class="filesystem">ext2</systemitem>, which adds journaling
- capabilities and is compatible with the E2fsprogs utilities.
- We will create an <systemitem class="filesystem">ext3</systemitem>
- file system. Instructions for creating other file systems can be found at
- <ulink url="&blfs-root;view/svn/postlfs/filesystems.html"/>.</para>
- <para>To create an <systemitem class="filesystem">ext3</systemitem> file
- system on the LFS partition, run the following:</para>
- <screen role="nodump"><userinput>mke2fs -jv /dev/<replaceable><xxx></replaceable></userinput></screen>
- <para>Replace <replaceable><xxx></replaceable> with the name of the LFS
- partition (<filename class="devicefile">hda5</filename> in our previous
- example).</para>
- <note>
- <para>Some host distributions use custom features in their filesystem
- creation tools (E2fsprogs). This can cause problems when booting into your new
- LFS in Chapter 9, as those features will not be supported by the LFS-installed
- E2fsprogs; you will get an error similar to <quote>unsupported filesystem
- features, upgrade your e2fsprogs</quote>. To check if your host system
- uses custom enhancements, run the following command:</para>
- <screen role="nodump"><userinput>debugfs -R feature /dev/<replaceable><xxx></replaceable></userinput></screen>
- <para>If the output contains features other than
- <option>has_journal</option>, <option>ext_attr</option>,
- <option>resize_inode</option>, <option>dir_index</option>,
- <option>filetype</option>, <option>sparse_super</option>,
- <option>large_file</option> or <option>needs_recovery</option>, then your
- host system may have custom enhancements. In that case, to avoid later
- problems, you should compile the stock E2fsprogs package and use the
- resulting binaries to re-create the filesystem on your LFS partition:</para>
- <screen role="nodump"><userinput>cd /tmp
- tar -xzvf /path/to/sources/e2fsprogs-&e2fsprogs-version;.tar.gz
- cd e2fsprogs-&e2fsprogs-version;
- mkdir -v build
- cd build
- ../configure
- make #note that we intentionally don't 'make install' here!
- ./misc/mke2fs -jv /dev/<replaceable><xxx></replaceable>
- cd /tmp
- rm -rfv e2fsprogs-&e2fsprogs-version;</userinput></screen>
- </note>
- <para>If you are using an existing <systemitem class="filesystem">swap
- </systemitem> partition, there is no need to format it. If a new
- <systemitem class="filesystem"> swap</systemitem> partition was created,
- it will need to be initialized with this command:</para>
- <screen role="nodump"><userinput>mkswap /dev/<replaceable><yyy></replaceable></userinput></screen>
- <para>Replace <replaceable><yyy></replaceable> with the name of the
- <systemitem class="filesystem">swap</systemitem> partition.</para>
- </sect1>
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