Le lundi 05 novembre à 17:04, Feuerbacher, Alan a écrit : > Thank you! > > But I still don't understand what I'm doing. How do I know which of the > various devices (/dev/sdaN) is supposed to be used with mke2fs? > > 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 :-) And the man about mke2fs is not so unclear, as I can remember. > > 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. Anyway, there is certainly a swap partition on your host 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 :-) > > > 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. -- Ph. Delavalade -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
