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== Creating a Filesystem on a Fedora Disk Partition ==
We now have a new disk installed, it is visible to Fedora and we have configured a Linux partition on the disk. The next step is to create a Linux filesystem file system on the partition so that the operating system can use it to store files and data. The easiest way to create a filesystem file system on a partition is to use the ''mkfs.ext3'' utility which takes as arguments the label and the partition device:
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