cryptsetup-luks on fedora: step 7, 8

Step 7: Create a filesystem on the new logical partition

For this HOWTO, we make an ext3 file system on /dev/mapper/home using the following commands:

# /sbin/mkfs.ext3 -j -m 1 /dev/mapper/home

(wait several minutes...)
mke2fs 1.35 (28-Feb-2004)
Filesystem label=
OS type: Linux
Block size=4096 (log=2)
Fragment size=4096 (log=2)
36634624 inodes, 73258400 blocks
732584 blocks (1.00%) reserved for the super user
First data block=0
2236 block groups
32768 blocks per group, 32768 fragments per group
16384 inodes per group
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912, 819200, 884736, 1605632, 2654208,
4096000, 7962624, 11239424, 20480000, 23887872, 71663616

Writing inode tables: done
Creating journal (8192 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information: done

This filesystem will be automatically checked every 39 mounts or
180 days, whichever comes first. Use tune2fs -c or -i to override.
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(Note, the above output was borrowed from William Owen Smith's HOWTO: "EncryptedDeviceUsingLUKS".)

Step 8: Mount the filesystem

Mount your new logical device /dev/mapper/home to /home.

# mount /dev/mapper/home /home

View the file system's disk usage to verify that it worked:

# df -h /dev/mapper/home
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/home 4.0G 80M 3.8G 3% /home