Changeset 4260133 for BOOK/partitioning

Timestamp:

Jun 3, 2014, 12:48:44 AM (11 years ago)

Author:

Chris Staub <chris@…>

Branches:

clfs-3.0.0-systemd, master, systemd

Children:

3359e39

Parents:

c0590b9e

Message:

Specify root user for more commands, for consistency

File:

• BOOK/partitioning/common/creatingfilesystem.xml (modified) (3 diffs)

BOOK/partitioning/common/creatingfilesystem.xml

@@ -20 +20 @@
 
   <para os="b">To create an <systemitem class="filesystem">ext2</systemitem> file
-  system on the CLFS partition, run the following:</para>
+  system on the CLFS partition, run the following as
+  <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>:</para>
 
 <screen os="c"><userinput>mke2fs /dev/<replaceable>[xxx]</replaceable></userinput></screen>
@@ -41 +42 @@
     <para>If the output contains features other than: dir_index; filetype;
     large_file; resize_inode or sparse_super then your host system may have custom
-    enhancements.  In that case, to avoid later problems, you should compile the
+    enhancements. In that case, to avoid later problems, you should compile the
     stock E2fsprogs package and use the resulting binaries to re-create the
-    filesystem on your CLFS partition:</para>
+    filesystem on your CLFS partition. To do this, run the following commands
+    as <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>:</para>
 
 <screen os="g"><userinput>cd /tmp
@@ -58 +60 @@
   </note>
 
-  <para os="h">If a swap partition was created, it will need to be initialized
-  for use by issuing the command below. If you are using an existing swap
-  partition, there is no need to format it.</para>
+  <para os="h">If you created a swap partition, you will need to initialize it
+  for use by issuing the command below as
+  <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem>:</para>
 
 <screen os="i"><userinput>mkswap /dev/<replaceable>[yyy]</replaceable></userinput></screen>
 
   <para os="j">Replace <replaceable>[yyy]</replaceable> with the name of the
-  swap partition.</para>
+  swap partition. If you are using an existing swap partition, there is no
+  need to format it.</para>
 
 </sect1>