Le lundi 05 novembre à 17:47, Feuerbacher, Alan a écrit : > 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.
That was my goal too ! Now, I have always to learn ! > > > 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. That's not what was in your first post ; now, THE lfs partition is sda2 ; I'd never used a proc partition. And I don't know about fdisk, I prefer cfdisk :-) > > 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. :-) There no need to wait but the boot partition is used later, that's all, no problem to install the filesystem right now. > > Why would I wait until the installation of the bootloader? Wait for what? of course, why not :-) > > > Anyway, there is certainly a swap partition on your > > host system. > > Yes, but what does that have to do with the LFS system? One swap is sufficient. > > > > 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. The book suggests ext3 and it is of course a safe idea and ext2 is not so convinient for large partition. -- Ph. Delavalade -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
