| 1 | <sect1 id="ch03-creatingpart">
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| 2 | <title>Creating a new partition</title>
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| 3 | <?dbhtml filename="creatingpart.html" dir="chapter03"?>
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| 4 |
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| 5 | <para>In order to build our new Linux system, we will need some space:
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| 6 | an empty disk partition. If you don't have a free partition, and no room
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| 7 | on any of your hard disks to make one, then you could build LFS on the
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| 8 | same partition as the one on which your current distribution is installed.
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| 9 | This procedure is not recommended for your first LFS install, but if you
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| 10 | are short on disk space, and you feel brave, take a look at the hint at
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| 11 | <ulink url="&hints-root;lfs_next_to_existing_systems.txt"/>.</para>
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| 12 |
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| 13 | <para>For a minimal system you will need a partition of around 1 GB.
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| 14 | This is enough to store all the source tarballs and compile all the packages.
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| 15 | But if you intend to use the LFS system as your primary Linux system, you
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| 16 | will probably want to install additional software, and will need more space
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| 17 | than this, probably around 2 or 3 GB.</para>
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| 18 |
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| 19 | <para>As we almost never have enough RAM in our box, it is a good idea to
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| 20 | use a small disk partition as swap space -- this space is used by the kernel
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| 21 | to store seldom-used data to make room in memory for more urgent stuff.
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| 22 | The swap partition for your LFS system can be the same one as for your host
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| 23 | system, so you won't have to create another if your host system already uses
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| 24 | a swap partition.</para>
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| 25 |
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| 26 | <para>Start the <userinput>cfdisk</userinput> program with an argument naming
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| 27 | the hard disk upon which the new partition must be created -- for example
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| 28 | <filename>/dev/hda</filename> for the primary IDE disk. Create a Linux native
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| 29 | partition and a swap partition, if needed. Please refer to the man page of
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| 30 | <userinput>cfdisk</userinput> if you don't yet know how to use the program.</para>
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| 31 |
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| 32 | <para>Remember the designation of your new partition -- something like
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| 33 | <filename>hda5</filename>. This book will refer to it as the LFS partition.
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| 34 | If you (now) also have a swap partition, remember its designation too. These
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| 35 | names will later be needed for the <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> file.</para>
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| 36 |
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| 37 | </sect1>
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| 38 |
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