Creating a file system on the new partition

Creating a file system on the new partition Once the partition is created, we have to create a new file system on that partition. To create an ext2 file system, the mke2fs command is the correct choice. To create a reiser file system, the mkreiserfs command should be used. The new partition is used as the only option to the command and the file system is created. If the partition is hda11 and ext2 is to be created, the user would run:

mke2fs /dev/hda11

To create a reiser file system the user would run:

mkreiserfs /dev/hda11