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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
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<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN" "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" [
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<!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../general.ent">
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%general-entities;
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]>
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<sect1 id="space-creatingpartition">
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<title>Creating a new partition</title>
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<?dbhtml filename="creatingpartition.html"?>
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<para>In order to build our new Linux system, we will need some space:
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an empty disk partition. If you don't have a free partition, and no room
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on any of your hard disks to make one, then you could build LFS on the
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same partition as the one on which your current distribution is installed.
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This procedure is not recommended for your first LFS install, but if you
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are short on disk space, and you feel brave, take a look at the hint at
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<ulink url="&hints-root;lfs_next_to_existing_systems.txt"/>.</para>
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<para>For a minimal system you will need a partition of around 1.3 GB.
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This is enough to store all the source tarballs and compile all the packages.
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But if you intend to use the LFS system as your primary Linux system, you
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will probably want to install additional software, and will need more space
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than this, probably around 2 or 3 GB.</para>
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<para>As we almost never have enough RAM in our box, it is a good idea to
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use a small disk partition as swap space -- this space is used by the kernel
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to store seldom-used data to make room in memory for more urgent stuff.
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The swap partition for your LFS system can be the same one as for your host
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system, so you won't have to create another if your host system already uses
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a swap partition.</para>
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<para>Start a disk partitioning program such as <command>cfdisk</command>
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or <command>fdisk</command> with an argument naming the hard disk upon
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which the new partition must be created -- for example
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<filename>/dev/hda</filename> for the primary IDE disk. Create a Linux native
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partition and a swap partition, if needed. Please refer to the man pages of
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<command>cfdisk</command> or <command>fdisk</command> if you don't yet
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know how to use the programs.</para>
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<para>Remember the designation of your new partition -- something like
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<filename>hda5</filename>. This book will refer to it as the LFS partition.
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If you (now) also have a swap partition, remember its designation too. These
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names will later be needed for the <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> file.</para>
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</sect1>
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