Philippe Delavalade wrote: > > I read the man page for mke2fs and it's as clear as mud. And the LFS > > book is completely unclear about exactly what is going on. > > The book suppose that you have some knowledge about linux and > partitions > :-)
Well I do have *some* knowledge. It's just a matter of how much. :-) Seriously, I'm doing this in order to learn about all this stuff. > And the man about mke2fs is not so unclear, as I can remember. It is to me. I'll have to think a lot more about what you and Bruce have told me, in terms of the mke2fs man page, and try to understand what I'm missing. > > Are you saying that I have to run mke2fs for EACH of the devices > /dev/sda1, /dev/sda2 and so forth? > > You'll have to do it for /dev/sda6 and for /dev/sda7 ; on sda2, I think > you plane to install your home and that can wait ; for /dev/sda1 I > think you can wait still the installation of the bootloader ; and > /dev/sda5 is the swap, you'll see what to do with it at the end of your > current section. My plan WAS to have /dev/sda1 as the /boot partition, and the rest as whatever fdisk forces you to have. After some experimentation and absorbing the material in the LFS book, I hit on this: /dev/sda1 /boot 500M /dev/sda2 extended partition containing everything else /dev/sda5 swap 32G (I have 16G of RAM) /dev/sda6 /usr /dev/sda7 /opt and so forth, following the LFS book. Questions: Why would I NOT use mke2fs immediately to make filesystems on sda1, sda2 and sda5? I want to know enough to really understand what is going on sufficiently that I could teach it to my grandmother. :-) Why would I wait until the installation of the bootloader? Wait for what? > Anyway, there is certainly a swap partition on your > host system. Yes, but what does that have to do with the LFS system? > > I already know (please excuse my ignorance) that running mke2fs with > > /dev/sda completely wipes out the partitions I just made, so that's > > obviously not supposed to be done. > > Rigth :-) Ok, then: how does one get that information from the man page on mke2fs? > > > IMHO, the /boot can wait but you'll have to take it in > consideration > > > later. > > > > I don't understand this at all. Later we mount the various > partitions. > > Is that what you're referring to? > > The /boot is not used until installing grub or lilo. Maybe, an ext2 > could be better for this little partition. For your home, if I guess > what you want to do, I mean for sda2, maybe you can use ext4. OK, but the LFS book clearly says that every partition will be ext3. Je ne comprends pas. Alan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
