setting up file system

[Michael Havens]

it's good now. I installed the gnu-fdisk package and used the cfdisk
executable from there. I could only install ext2 but after I did that mkfs
worked to upgrade it to ext4. The reason I used mkfs as opposed to mke2fs
is that the LFS book told me to use mkfs. Why should I have used mke2fs?

root at debian:~# cat /proc/partitions
major minor  #blocks  name

   8        0  244140625 sda
   8        1    3905536 sda1
   8        2          1 sda2
   8        5   48827392 sda5
   8        6   19535008 sda6
   8        7    5855661 sda7
  11        0    1048575 sr0
root at debian:~#

udev is running:
root at debian:~# ps -e |grep udev
  402 ?        00:00:00 udevd
13624 ?        00:00:00 udevd
13628 ?        00:00:00 udevd
root at debian:~#

root at debian:~# ls -l /dev/sd*
brw-rw---T 1 root disk   8,  0 Jul 26 00:09 /dev/sda
brw-rw---T 1 root disk   8,  1 Jul 25 12:41 /dev/sda1
brw-rw---T 1 root disk   8,  2 Jul 26 00:07 /dev/sda2
brw-rw---T 1 root disk   8,  5 Jul 25 12:41 /dev/sda5
brw-rw---T 1 root disk   8,  6 Jul 26 00:10 /dev/sda6
brw-rw---T 1 root disk   8,  7 Jul 26 00:07 /dev/sda7
brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 16 Jul 25 12:41 /dev/sdb
brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 32 Jul 25 12:41 /dev/sdc
brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 48 Jul 25 12:41 /dev/sdd
brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 64 Jul 25 12:41 /dev/sde
root at debian:~#
 (I don't know why it is saying sdab-e are floppies. There is not a floppy
drive in this machine.)

:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 5:17 PM, <kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:

> What does:
> cat /proc/partitions
> say?
> Why are you using mkfs ?
> Why not mke2fs ?
> ET
> Michael Havens writes:
>
>> I was so excited! I installed the debian syatem but when I tried to mount
>> the LFS partition it said
>> "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda9,
>>        missing codepage or helper program, or other error
>>        In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>>        dmesg | tail  or so"
>> then as I was trying to investigate the LFS partitions cfdisk wouldn't
>> even
>> start and fdisk kept saying
>> "Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by
>> w(rite)"
>> Writing didn't correct the problem so instead of bugging you I figured
>> that
>> this might have something to do with the fact that I set the  LFS
>> partitions up when I installed debian. So I reinstalled debian w/o setting
>> up the LFS partitions and now now cfdisk starts and I set the partitions
>> up. But it won't let me create the file system. this is what happens:
>> root at debian:~# mkfs -v -t ext4 /dev/sda6
>> mke2fs 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012)
>> Could not stat /dev/sda6 --- No such file or directory
>> The device apparently does not exist; did you specify it correctly?
>> root at debian:~# fdisk /dev/sda
>> Command (m for help): p
>> Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250000000000 bytes
>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30394 cylinders, total 488281250 sectors
>> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
>> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>> Disk identifier: 0x0007bc26
>>    Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
>> /dev/sda1            2048     7813119     3905536   82  Linux swap /
>> Solaris
>> /dev/sda2         7815166   488281249   240233042    5  Extended
>> /dev/sda5   *     7815168   105469951    48827392   83  Linux
>> /dev/sda6       437499848   476569864    19535008+  83  Linux
>> /dev/sda7       476569928   488281249     5855661   82  Linux swap /
>> Solaris
>> as you can see the device does exist. sda1 is swap for the debian system
>> which is in sda5. sda6 is going to be the LFS system and sda7 is going to
>> be the swap for LFS when I get done.
>> Please, what did I do wrong or else what is the problem?
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 6:11 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> well..... I just  realized that there must be a reason that the glibc
>>> line
>>> was commented out in the LFS book so I'm not going to worry about it.
>>> regarding your line I did enter it and it  returned nothing. then I
>>> re-read
>>> the the text concerning that and it finally dawned on me..... I want all
>>> of
>>> them or none of them and if I only had 1 or two of them it is okay to
>>> delete the ones that are there. I get there.... even if it does take me a
>>> little longer. I wish this wasn't the case but at least I can blame the
>>> head injury for the difficulties. I'll start working on it when I get
>>> home
>>> from work tonight.
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 5:27 AM, <kitepilot at kitepilot.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Michael, have you even looked at what is in line 32 of your
>>>> version-check.sh?
>>>> Among other things, because 'glibc' is more than a program (it is more
>>>> like the whole engine running under the hood), and your system would not
>>>> even boot up is you don't have 'glibc' (which is a whole lot system)
>>>> You'll learn that as you read LFS.
>>>> Did you ever try:
>>>> find /lib/ /*/lib/ -name lib${X}.la
>>>> ET
>>>> Michael Havens writes:
>>>>
>>>>> well, I didn't have a problem getting these files with a standard
>>>>> installation of debian; it was only after I tried with a net install of
>>>>> debia. So right now I'm downloading a current dvd iso of debian and
>>>>> after
>>>>> the install I'll see if that helps.
>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> well I installed gmp  the way it instructed and then I did a search
>>>>>> for
>>>>>> mpfr on the same website and installed it as well, but couldn't find
>>>>>> gibc
>>>>>> or mpc. I was going to do a search for the missing files but figured I
>>>>>> would run version-check first to ensure I wasn't just spinning my
>>>>>> wheels.
>>>>>> It appears the two files were not installed correctly enough for LInux
>>>>>> from
>>>>>> Scratch.
>>>>>> gmp
>>>>>> ~$ bash version-check.sh
>>>>>> ---truncate---
>>>>>> version-check.sh: line 32: glibc: command not found
>>>>>> g++ compilation OK
>>>>>> libgmp.la: found
>>>>>> libmpfr.la: found
>>>>>> libmpc.la: not found
>>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Stephen Partington <
>>>>>> cryptworks at gmail.com
>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> this is what it is after:
>>>>>>> GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library
>>>>>>> The GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library is a free library for
>>>>>>> arbitrary-precision arithmetic, operating on signed integers,
>>>>>>> rational
>>>>>>> numbers, and floating point numbers.
>>>>>>> http://petio.org/tools/gmp.html has some nice refrence material as
>>>>>>> well.
>>>>>>> *Snip*
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you
>>>>>>> from
>>>>>>> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>>>>>>> Stephen
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