# Mounting the New Partition

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.