Sun Microsystems StorEdge 3000 Series, Installation, Operation And Service Manual

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Appendix H Configuring a Linux Server H-7
6. After you have completed accepting the defaults and are back at the “Command
(m or help):” screen, press W to save the configuration and exit
fdisk
.
Your partition is ready for a file system now.
H.6 Creating a File System
1. Log in as root, or su to root if you are logged in as a user.
2. Take the device that you ran
fdisk
on and run the following command to create
an ext3 file system:
where
x
is the partition that you are making into a file system. Replace x with
1
since there is only one partition.
H.7 Creating a Mount Point and Mounting
the File System Manually
1. Go to the directory where you want to create a directory that will be the mount
point. Then type the following command:
2. To mount your file system, type the following:
where x is 1 for this partition and the directory-path is the directory that was created
and its location.
mkfs -t ext3 /dev/sdb( x )
mkdir (name)
mount /dev/sdb( x ) / directory-path