%general-entities; ]> Now that a file system has been created, the partition needs to be made accessible. In order to do this, the partition needs to be mounted at a chosen mount point. For the purposes of this book, it is assumed that the file system is mounted under /mnt/clfs, but the directory choice is up to you. Choose a mount point and assign it to the LFS environment variable by running: export CLFS=/mnt/clfs Next, create the mount point and mount the CLFS file system by running: mkdir -pv $CLFS mount -v /dev/[xxx] $CLFS Replace [xxx] with the designation of the CLFS partition. If using multiple partitions for CLFS (e.g., one for / and another for /usr), mount them using: mkdir -pv $CLFS mount -v /dev/[xxx] $CLFS mkdir -v $CLFS/usr mount -v /dev/[yyy] $CLFS/usr Replace [xxx] and [yyy] with the appropriate partition names. Ensure that this new partition is not mounted with permissions that are too restrictive (such as the nosuid, nodev, or noatime options). Run the mount command without any parameters to see what options are set for the mounted CLFS partition. If nosuid, nodev, and/or noatime are set, the partition will need to be remounted. Now that there is an established place to work, it is time to download the packages.