Hello People,

Just want to share some of my discovery on "Creating a File System on the Partition".

Beside using mke2fs -jv to create ext2/3 file system, we could use mkfs.ext2/3 -jv to create ext2/3 file system.

There are other mkfs to make different type file system, such as:

mkfs.vfat -> Create MS-DOS FAT/16/32 file system
mkfs.msdos -> Create MS-DOS file system
mkfs.ntfs -> Create NTFS file system
mkfs.xfs -> Create XFS file system
mkfs.reiserfs -> Create Reiser file system

and etc etc.

Thank you.

Hi,

Just to clarify:

The presence of the mkfs.XXX executables depend a bit on the distro/host you use, not all of them are always present. mkfs should always be present and depending on what else is installed it can create other filesystems then ext2/3.

LFS doesn't have to be build on a ext3 FS, as long as it is a linex FS all is ok (I wouldn't use vfat, msdos or ntfs....).

Yup, agree...

Thank you.