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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4  <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5  %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-partitioning-creatingfilesystem">
9  <?dbhtml filename="creatingfilesystem.html"?>
10
11  <title>Creating a File System on the Partition</title>
12
13  <para os="a">Now that a blank partition has been set up, the file system can be
14  created. The most widely-used system in the Linux world is the second
15  extended file system (ext2), but with newer high-capacity hard disks,
16  journaling file systems are becoming increasingly popular. We will create
17  an <systemitem class="filesystem">ext2</systemitem> file system.
18  Instructions for other file systems can be found at
19  <ulink url="&cblfs-root;index.php?section=6#File_System"/>.</para>
20
21  <para os="b">To create an <systemitem class="filesystem">ext2</systemitem> file
22  system on the CLFS partition, run the following as
23  <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>:</para>
24
25<screen os="c"><userinput>mke2fs /dev/<replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable></userinput></screen>
26
27  <para os="d">Replace <replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable> with the name of the CLFS
28  partition (<filename class="devicefile">sda5</filename> in our previous
29  example).</para>
30
31  <note os="e">
32    <para>Some host distributions use custom features in their filesystem
33    creation tools (E2fsprogs). This can cause problems when booting into
34    your new CLFS system, as those features will not be supported by the
35    CLFS-installed E2fsprogs; you will get an error similar to
36    <computeroutput>unsupported filesystem features, upgrade your
37    e2fsprogs</computeroutput>. To check if your host system uses custom
38    enhancements, run the following command:</para>
39
40<screen os="f"><userinput>debugfs -R feature /dev/<replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable></userinput></screen>
41
42    <para>If the output contains features other than: dir_index; filetype;
43    large_file; resize_inode or sparse_super then your host system may have custom
44    enhancements. In that case, to avoid later problems, you should compile the
45    stock E2fsprogs package and use the resulting binaries to re-create the
46    filesystem on your CLFS partition. To do this, run the following commands
47    as <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>:</para>
48
49<screen os="g"><userinput>cd /tmp
50tar xjf /path/to/sources/e2fsprogs-&e2fsprogs-version;.tar.bz2
51cd e2fsprogs-&e2fsprogs-version;
52mkdir build
53cd build
54../configure
55make #note that we intentionally don't 'make install' here!
56./misc/mke2fs /dev/<replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable>
57cd /tmp
58rm -rf e2fsprogs-&e2fsprogs-version;</userinput></screen>
59
60  </note>
61
62  <para os="h">If you created a swap partition, you will need to initialize it
63  for use by issuing the command below as
64  <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>:</para>
65
66<screen os="i"><userinput>mkswap /dev/<replaceable>[yyy]</replaceable></userinput></screen>
67
68  <para os="j">Replace <replaceable>[yyy]</replaceable> with the name of the
69  swap partition. If you are using an existing swap partition, there is no
70  need to format it.</para>
71
72</sect1>
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