Le lundi 05 novembre à 21:11, Feuerbacher, Alan a écrit : > Thank you all very much for your advice! > > Here's what I propose to do now, given your inputs: > > Don't put LFS on the SSD -- use a regular hard drive. > > Set up the partitions like this, using an ext4 filesystem: > > /dev/sda1 /boot 100M > /dev/sda2 Extended Linux partition ~100G > /dev/sda5 Linux swap 2G > /dev/sda6 / ~98G
This seems odd to me. Maybe I'm wrong but your swap seems too small for your 16GB of RAM and you told you have a Fedora on sdb2, so swap is certainly on that drive (i don't know about fedora but I can't imagine there's no swap on sdb). The boot partition is not required ; you've already a boot partition or directory on sdb. What do you plane to put on your extended sda2 ? Following the lfs book, you just need one partition ; you can have a /usr partition if you like and a var one and a tmp one, etc. It's your first built and, maybe I'm wrong, but you'll certainly not work with lfs for this first time, perhaps later... As to me, I built lfs many times but I never continue whith blfs ; debian is my work system ; lfs is just to learn and undertand more deeply a lot of things. > Use mke2fs -t ext4 to create filesystems on /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda6. Ext4 seems inapropriate for your little boot partition. IMHO use ext2. > I should NOT use mke2fs to create filesystems on /dev/sda2 and > /dev/sda5. I don't fully understand why not, though. Can someone explain? On the swap partition, you'll don't write anything ; this partition is used by the system as a memory when your ram is unsufficient. > > Under the above scheme, the extended linux partition CONTAINS the swap > and / logical partitions, so it seems reasonable that you would not use > mke2fs both on it, and on the partitions it contains, right? sda2 doesn't contain0 sda5 and sda6. You've misunderstood something (or it's me :-) ). > On the other > hand, why would swap not be considered a filesystem? See above. > And why would you > not make a filesystem on sda2, thereby (in my naive brain, anyway) not > having to make a filesystem on sda6? Further, why would you not make the > whole drive -- /dev/sda -- one filesystem? sda is too big ; you are obliged to make a partition on it. If you consider an usb stick, if it is a litte one, it will be on sdf (for instance) but if it is more thant 2GB (I'm not sure for the size) it will be on sdf1. I don't know why but it is so :-) So your disk sda must have one partition (or more). > > Another thing is that there seem to be several notions of a > filesystem. From > http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-linux-filesystem/ > I get this general definition: > > << What is a file system? > > I'll start with an answer to the most basic question, the definition of a > file system. A file system is an organization of data and metadata on a > storage device. > >> That's right but there's many possible organisations : fat16 (on floppies), fat32 (with old microsoft windows), ntfs with windows xp, vista, seven... linux use usually ext2/3/4 ; there's lot of other filesystems. > > The man page for mke2fs talks about making filesystems in disk > partitions. So a filesystem in the general sense can contain one or more > filesystems in the mke2fs sense, and it's not always clear to me (again, a > newbie to this stuff) which one is being talked about. I suppose experience > will take care of that. I don't really understand what you mean, sorry :-) Hope this can help but was I clear enough ? -- Ph. Delavalade -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
