Formatting hard drives

Now we need to format the partitions with appropriate file systems. The root partition must be formatted as ext4

# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdxY

In my case root was /dev/sda1, so it’s:

# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sda1

Activate the swap partition:

# mkswap /dev/sdxY
# swapon /dev/sdxY

In my case it was:

# mkswap /dev/sda2
# swapon /dev/sda2

Mount the root partition to the ‘mnt’ directory:

# mount /dev/sdxN /mnt

In my case it was sda1:

# mount /dev/sda1 /mnt

We are all set, now it’s time to proceed to installation.