| 12345678910111213141516171819202122232425262728293031323334353637383940 | <sect1 id="ch03-mounting"><title>Mounting the new partition</title><?dbhtml filename="mounting.html" dir="chapter03"?><para>Now that we've created a file system, we want to be able to accessthe partition. For that, we need to mount it, and have to choose a mountpoint. In this book we assume that the file system is mounted under<filename>/mnt/lfs</filename>, but it doesn't matter what directoryyou choose.</para><para>Choose a mount point and assign it to the LFS environment variableby running:</para><para><screen><userinput>export LFS=/mnt/lfs</userinput></screen></para><para>Now create the mount point and mount the LFS file system by running:</para><para><screen><userinput>mkdir -p $LFS &&mount /dev/xxx $LFS</userinput></screen></para><para>Replace <filename>xxx</filename> with the designation of the LFSpartition.</para><para>If you have decided to use multiple partitions for LFS (say one for<filename>/</filename> and another for <filename>/usr</filename>), mountthem like this:</para><para><screen><userinput>mkdir -p $LFS &&mount /dev/xxx $LFS &&mkdir $LFS/usr &&mount /dev/yyy $LFS/usr</userinput></screen></para><para>Of course, replace <filename>xxx</filename> and <filename>yyy</filename>with the appropriate partition names.</para><para>Now that we've made ourselves a place to work in, we're ready to downloadthe packages.</para></sect1>
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