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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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18 | Build instructions for other file systems can be found at |
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19 | <ulink url="&blfs-root;view/svn/postlfs/filesystems.html"/>.</para> |
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20 | |
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21 | <para os="b">To create an <systemitem class="filesystem">ext2</systemitem> file |
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22 | system on the CLFS partition, run the following:</para> |
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23 | |
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24 | <screen os="c"><userinput>mke2fs /dev/<replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable></userinput></screen> |
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25 | |
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26 | <para os="d">Replace <replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable> with the name of the CLFS |
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27 | partition (<filename class="devicefile">hda5</filename> in our previous |
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28 | example).</para> |
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29 | |
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30 | <note os="e"> |
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31 | <para>Some host distributions use custom features in their filesystem |
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32 | creation tools (E2fsprogs). This can cause problems when booting into |
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33 | your new CLFS, as those features will not be supported by the LFS-installed |
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34 | E2fsprogs; you will get an error similar to <computeroutput>unsupported |
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35 | filesystem features, upgrade your e2fsprogs</computeroutput>. To check |
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36 | if your host system uses custom enhancements, run the following |
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37 | command:</para> |
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38 | |
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39 | <screen os="f"><userinput>debugfs -R feature /dev/<replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable></userinput></screen> |
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40 | |
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41 | <para>If the output contains features other than: dir_index; filetype; |
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42 | large_file; resize_inode or sparse_super then your host system may have custom |
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43 | enhancements. In that case, to avoid later problems, you should compile the |
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44 | stock E2fsprogs package and use the resulting binaries to re-create the |
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45 | filesystem on your CLFS partition:</para> |
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46 | |
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47 | <screen os="g"><userinput>cd /tmp |
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48 | tar xjf /path/to/sources/e2fsprogs-&e2fsprogs-version;.tar.bz2 |
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49 | cd e2fsprogs-&e2fsprogs-version; |
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50 | mkdir build |
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51 | cd build |
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52 | ../configure |
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53 | make #note that we intentionally don't 'make install' here! |
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54 | ./misc/mke2fs /dev/<replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable> |
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55 | cd /tmp |
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56 | rm -rf e2fsprogs-&e2fsprogs-version;</userinput></screen> |
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57 | |
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58 | </note> |
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59 | |
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60 | <para os="h">If a swap partition was created, it will need to be initialized |
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61 | for use by issuing the command below. If you are using an existing swap |
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62 | partition, there is no need to format it.</para> |
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63 | |
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64 | <screen os="i"><userinput>mkswap /dev/<replaceable>[yyy]</replaceable></userinput></screen> |
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65 | |
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66 | <para os="j">Replace <replaceable>[yyy]</replaceable> with the name of the |
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67 | swap partition.</para> |
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68 | |
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69 | </sect1> |
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