Before we can build our new Linux system, we need to have an empty Linux partition on which we can build our new system. I recommend a partition size of around 750 MB. This gives enough space to store all the tarballs and to compile all packages without worrying running out of the necessary temporary disk space. If a Linux Native partition is already available, this subsection can be skipped. The cfdisk program (or another fdisk like program the user prefers) is started with the appropriate hard disk as the option (like /dev/hda if he wants to create a new partition on the primary master IDE disk). He creates a Linux Native partition, writes the partition table and exits the cfdisk program. The new partition's designation should be remembered. It could be something like hda11 (as it is in my case). This newly created partition will be referred to as the LFS partition in this book.