Philippe Delavalade wrote: > Le lundi 05 novembre à 14:24, Alan Feuerbacher a écrit : >> Howdy, >> >> I've done a major reset by giving up on installing an LFS system on my >> old 32-bit computer, and am now installing it on a new 64-bit system. >> The new system now has Fedora as the host system. It's installed on >> /dev/sdb and I want to put LFS on a blank 256G SSD -- /dev/sda. >> >> In trying to format /dev/sda I'm running into a conceptual problem. I >> partition the disk into: >> >> /dev/sda1 for /boot >> /dev/sda2 Extended partition >> /dev/sda5 swap >> /dev/sda6 for / >> /dev/sda7 for /usr
For an SSD drive, I suggest getting gptdisk (fdisk syntax) or gparted (challenging syntax) and partitioning the drive as a gpt drive. The first partition should be at sector 2048 or 1 MB. Make /boot 1 M, swap 2G, / 20G, and /home as desired. I like to leave some space. I advise against a separate /usr. The reasons for that (small, expensive disk drives) are not really valid any more. For an ssd drive, you will want to disable atime *after* completing LFS. For example: /dev/sdc6 / ext4 noatime,discard,data=writeback There are no extended partitions for a gpt partitions disk. None are needed. >> and so forth. This is following the suggestions in the LFS book, section >> 2.2.1.3. >> >> When I go to section 2.3 to create a file system "on the partition", the >> book says: >> >> ################ >> To create an ext3 file system on the LFS partition, run the following: >> >> mke2fs -jv /dev/<xxx> >> >> Replace <xxx> with the name of the LFS partition (hda5 in our previous >> example). >> ################ >> >> What should "<xxx>" be in the above example? I'd use: mkfs -t ext2 /dev/sda1 mkfs -t ext4 /dev/sda6 mount /dev/sda6 /mnt/lfs Mount sda1 as /boot in chapter 6. You don't need any others while building LFS. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
