Now that a file system has been created, the partition needs to
be made accessible. In order to do this, the partition needs to be
mounted at a chosen mount point. For the purposes of this book, it is
assumed that the file system is mounted under /mnt/clfs
, but the directory choice is up
to you.
Choose a mount point and assign it to the CLFS
environment variable by running:
export CLFS=/mnt/clfs
Next, create the mount point and mount the CLFS file system by running:
mkdir -pv ${CLFS}
mount -v /dev/[xxx]
${CLFS}
Replace [xxx]
with the designation of
the CLFS partition.
If using multiple partitions for CLFS (e.g., one for /
and another for /usr
), mount them using:
mkdir -pv ${CLFS} mount -v /dev/[xxx]
${CLFS} mkdir -v ${CLFS}/usr mount -v /dev/[yyy]
${CLFS}/usr
Replace [xxx]
and
[yyy]
with the appropriate partition
names.
Ensure that this new partition is not mounted with permissions
that are too restrictive (such as the nosuid, nodev, or noatime options).
Run the mount command without any parameters to see
what options are set for the mounted CLFS partition. If
nosuid
, nodev
, and/or
noatime
are set, the partition will need to be
remounted.
Now that there is an established place to work, it is time to download the packages.