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6 | <sect1 id="space-creatingpartition">
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7 | <title>Creating a new partition</title>
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8 | <?dbhtml filename="creatingpartition.html"?>
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9 |
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10 | <para>In order to build our new Linux system, we will need some space:
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11 | an empty disk partition. If you don't have a free partition, and no room
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12 | on any of your hard disks to make one, then you could build LFS on the
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13 | same partition as the one on which your current distribution is installed.
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14 | This procedure is not recommended for your first LFS install, but if you
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15 | are short on disk space, and you feel brave, take a look at the hint at
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16 | <ulink url="&hints-root;lfs_next_to_existing_systems.txt"/>.</para>
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17 |
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18 | <para>For a minimal system you will need a partition of around 1.3 GB.
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19 | This is enough to store all the source tarballs and compile all the packages.
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20 | But if you intend to use the LFS system as your primary Linux system, you
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21 | will probably want to install additional software, and will need more space
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22 | than this, probably around 2 or 3 GB.</para>
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23 |
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24 | <para>As we almost never have enough RAM in our box, it is a good idea to
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25 | use a small disk partition as swap space -- this space is used by the kernel
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26 | to store seldom-used data to make room in memory for more urgent stuff.
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27 | The swap partition for your LFS system can be the same one as for your host
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28 | system, so you won't have to create another if your host system already uses
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29 | a swap partition.</para>
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30 |
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31 | <para>Start a disk partitioning program such as <userinput>cfdisk</userinput>
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32 | or <userinput>fdisk</userinput> with an argument naming the hard disk upon
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33 | which the new partition must be created -- for example
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34 | <filename>/dev/hda</filename> for the primary IDE disk. Create a Linux native
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35 | partition and a swap partition, if needed. Please refer to the man pages of
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36 | <userinput>cfdisk</userinput> or <userinput>fdisk</userinput> if you don't yet
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37 | know how to use the programs.</para>
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38 |
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39 | <para>Remember the designation of your new partition -- something like
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40 | <filename>hda5</filename>. This book will refer to it as the LFS partition.
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41 | If you (now) also have a swap partition, remember its designation too. These
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42 | names will later be needed for the <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> file.</para>
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43 |
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44 | </sect1>
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