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Author: Michael Havens
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To: paul, Main PLUG discussion list
Subject: Re: Linux from scratch
Thanks Paul. I'll do that later. Boy do I feel silly! I should have known
that.

:-)~MIKE~(-:


On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 2:16 PM, Paul Mooring <> wrote:

> It's been a while since I did an LFS install, but I assume you have a
> partition mounted on `/mnt/lfs`. If that's the case the easiest thing is
> to recreate the filesystem. Imagine mount shows something like:
>
> /dev/sdb1 on /mnt/lfs type ext4 (rw)
>
> You would un mount the filesystem:
>
> umount /mnt/lfs
>
> Re-create the filesystem
>
> mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb1
>
> and remount it
>
> mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/lfs
>
> Then you should have an empty filesystem waiting for you.
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Michael Havens <> wrote:
>
>> I am confused. I need to start over. SO to do so I need to know what to
>> delete. I think it is as easy as exiting back to the host system shell
>> then:
>>
>> cd /mnt/lfs; rm -rf *
>>
>> and then I just need to start over from the point after I mkdir /mnt/lfs.
>> Is this correct?
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
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