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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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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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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 an 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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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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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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54 | </sect1> |
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