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<sect1 id="ch03-creatingfs">
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<title>Creating a file system on the new partition</title>
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<?dbhtml filename="creatingfs.html" dir="chapter03"?>
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<para>Now that we have a blank partition, we can create a file system on it.
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Most widely used in the Linux world is the second extended file system (ext2),
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but with the high-capacity hard disks of today the so-called journaling file
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systems are becoming increasingly popular. Here we will create an ext2 file
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system, but build instructions for other file systems can be found at <ulink
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url="&blfs-root;view/stable/postlfs/filesystems.html"/>.</para>
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<para>To create an ext2 file system on the LFS partition run the following:</para>
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<screen><userinput>mke2fs /dev/xxx</userinput></screen>
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<para>Replace <filename>xxx</filename> with the name of the LFS partition
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(something like <filename>hda5</filename>).</para>
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<para>If you created a (new) swap partition you need to initialize it as a
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swap partition too (also known as formatting, like you did above with
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<userinput>mke2fs</userinput>) by running:</para>
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<screen><userinput>mkswap /dev/yyy</userinput></screen>
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<para>Replace <filename>yyy</filename> with the name of the swap
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partition.</para>
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</sect1>
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