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[3f8be484] | 4 | <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent"> |
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| 5 | %general-entities; |
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| 6 | ]> |
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| 7 | |
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| 8 | <sect1 id="ch-partitioning-creatingfilesystem"> |
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| 9 | <?dbhtml filename="creatingfilesystem.html"?> |
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| 10 | |
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| 11 | <title>Creating a File System on the Partition</title> |
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| 12 | |
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| 13 | <para os="a">Now that a blank partition has been set up, the file system can be |
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| 14 | created. The most widely-used system in the Linux world is the second |
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| 15 | extended file system (ext2), but with newer high-capacity hard disks, |
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| 16 | journaling file systems are becoming increasingly popular. We will create |
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| 17 | an <systemitem class="filesystem">ext2</systemitem> file system. |
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[9680956] | 18 | Instructions for other file systems can be found at |
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[ed5961e] | 19 | <ulink url="&cblfs-root;index.php?section=6#File_System"/>.</para> |
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[3f8be484] | 20 | |
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| 21 | <para os="b">To create an <systemitem class="filesystem">ext2</systemitem> file |
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[4260133] | 22 | system on the CLFS partition, run the following as |
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| 23 | <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>:</para> |
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[3f8be484] | 24 | |
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| 25 | <screen os="c"><userinput>mke2fs /dev/<replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable></userinput></screen> |
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| 26 | |
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[fb40919] | 27 | <para os="d">Replace <replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable> with the name of the CLFS |
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[706c361] | 28 | partition (<filename class="devicefile">sda5</filename> in our previous |
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[3f8be484] | 29 | example).</para> |
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| 30 | |
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| 31 | <note os="e"> |
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| 32 | <para>Some host distributions use custom features in their filesystem |
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| 33 | creation tools (E2fsprogs). This can cause problems when booting into |
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[fb40919] | 34 | your new CLFS system, as those features will not be supported by the |
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| 35 | CLFS-installed E2fsprogs; you will get an error similar to |
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| 36 | <computeroutput>unsupported filesystem features, upgrade your |
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| 37 | e2fsprogs</computeroutput>. To check if your host system uses custom |
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| 38 | enhancements, run the following command:</para> |
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[3f8be484] | 39 | |
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| 40 | <screen os="f"><userinput>debugfs -R feature /dev/<replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable></userinput></screen> |
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| 41 | |
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| 42 | <para>If the output contains features other than: dir_index; filetype; |
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| 43 | large_file; resize_inode or sparse_super then your host system may have custom |
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[4260133] | 44 | enhancements. In that case, to avoid later problems, you should compile the |
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[3f8be484] | 45 | stock E2fsprogs package and use the resulting binaries to re-create the |
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[4260133] | 46 | filesystem on your CLFS partition. To do this, run the following commands |
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| 47 | as <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>:</para> |
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[3f8be484] | 48 | |
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| 49 | <screen os="g"><userinput>cd /tmp |
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| 50 | tar xjf /path/to/sources/e2fsprogs-&e2fsprogs-version;.tar.bz2 |
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| 51 | cd e2fsprogs-&e2fsprogs-version; |
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| 52 | mkdir build |
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| 53 | cd build |
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| 54 | ../configure |
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| 55 | make #note that we intentionally don't 'make install' here! |
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| 56 | ./misc/mke2fs /dev/<replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable> |
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| 57 | cd /tmp |
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| 58 | rm -rf e2fsprogs-&e2fsprogs-version;</userinput></screen> |
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| 59 | |
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| 60 | </note> |
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| 61 | |
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[4260133] | 62 | <para os="h">If you created a swap partition, you will need to initialize it |
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| 63 | for use by issuing the command below as |
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| 64 | <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>:</para> |
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[3f8be484] | 65 | |
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| 66 | <screen os="i"><userinput>mkswap /dev/<replaceable>[yyy]</replaceable></userinput></screen> |
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| 67 | |
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| 68 | <para os="j">Replace <replaceable>[yyy]</replaceable> with the name of the |
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[4260133] | 69 | swap partition. If you are using an existing swap partition, there is no |
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| 70 | need to format it.</para> |
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[3f8be484] | 71 | |
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| 72 | </sect1> |
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