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| 8 | <sect1 id="ch-partitioning-creatingpartition">
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| 11 | <title>Creating a New Partition</title>
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| 13 | <para os="a">Like most other operating systems, CLFS is usually installed
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| 14 | on a dedicated partition. The recommended approach to building a CLFS
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| 15 | system is to use an available empty partition or, if you have enough
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| 16 | unpartitioned space, to create one. However, if you're building for a
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| 17 | different architecture you can simply build everything in
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| 18 | <quote>/mnt/clfs</quote> (or whatever directory you want to use) and
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| 19 | transfer it to your target machine. If you do not plan to use a separate
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| 20 | partition for building CLFS, you can skip the rest of this chapter and
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| 21 | continue on to <xref linkend="chapter-getting-materials"/>.</para>
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| 22 |
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| 23 | <para os="b">A minimal system requires around 6 gigabytes (GB).
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| 24 | This is enough to store all the source tarballs and compile the packages. The CLFS
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| 25 | system itself will not take up this much room. A large portion of this requirement
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| 26 | is to provide sufficient free temporary storage. Compiling packages can require a
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| 27 | lot of disk space which will be reclaimed after the package is installed. If the
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| 28 | CLFS system is intended to be the primary Linux system, additional software will
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| 29 | probably be installed which will require additional space (2-10 GB). </para>
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| 30 |
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| 31 | <para os="c">Because there is not always enough Random Access Memory (RAM)
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| 32 | available for compilation processes, it is a good idea to use a small disk
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| 33 | partition as swap space. This is used by the kernel to store seldom-used
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| 34 | data and leave more memory available for active processes. The swap
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| 35 | partition for a CLFS system can be the same as the one used by the host
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| 36 | system, in which case it is not necessary to create another one.</para>
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| 37 |
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| 38 | <para os="d">As the <systemitem class="username">root</systemitem> user,
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| 39 | start a disk partitioning program such as <command>cfdisk</command>
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| 40 | or <command>fdisk</command> with a command line option naming the hard
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| 41 | disk on which the new partition will be created—for example
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| 42 | <filename class="devicefile">/dev/sda</filename> for the primary
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| 43 | Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) or Serial ATA (SATA) disk. Create a Linux
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| 44 | native partition and a swap partition, if needed. Please refer to
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| 45 | <filename>cfdisk(8)</filename> or <filename>fdisk(8)</filename> if you
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| 46 | do not yet know how to use the programs.</para>
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| 47 |
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| 48 | <para os="e">Remember the designation of the new partition (e.g.,
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| 49 | <filename class="devicefile">sda5</filename>). This book will refer to
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| 50 | this as the CLFS partition. Also, remember the designation of the swap
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| 51 | partition. These names will be needed later for the
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| 52 | <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> file.</para>
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