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4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
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8<sect1 id="ch-partitioning-creatingpartition">
9 <?dbhtml filename="creatingpartition.html"?>
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11 <title>Creating a New Partition</title>
12
13 <para os="a">Like most other operating systems, CLFS is usually installed
14 on a dedicated partition. The recommended approach to building a CLFS
15 system is to use an available empty partition or, if you have enough
16 unpartitioned space, to create one. However, if your building for a different
17 architecture you can simply build everything in <quote>/mnt/clfs</quote>
18 and transfer it to your target machine.</para>
19
20 <para os="b">A minimal system requires around 1.5 gigabytes (GB).
21 This is enough to store all the source tarballs and compile the packages.
22 However, if the CLFS system is intended to be the primary Linux system,
23 additional software will probably be installed which will require
24 additional space (2-3 GB). The CLFS system itself will not take up this
25 much room. A large portion of this requirement is to provide sufficient
26 free temporary storage. Compiling packages can require a lot of disk space
27 which will be reclaimed after the package is installed.</para>
28
29 <para os="c">Because there is not always enough Random Access Memory (RAM)
30 available for compilation processes, it is a good idea to use a small disk
31 partition as swap space. This is used by the kernel to store seldom-used
32 data and leave more memory available for active processes. The swap
33 partition for an CLFS system can be the same as the one used by the host
34 system, in which case it is not necessary to create another one.</para>
35
36 <para os="d">Start a disk partitioning program such as <command>cfdisk</command>
37 or <command>fdisk</command> with a command line option naming the hard
38 disk on which the new partition will be created&mdash;for example
39 <filename class="devicefile">/dev/hda</filename> for the primary
40 Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) disk. Create a Linux native partition
41 and a swap partition, if needed. Please refer to
42 <filename>cfdisk(8)</filename> or <filename>fdisk(8)</filename> if you
43 do not yet know how to use the programs.</para>
44
45 <para os="e">Remember the designation of the new partition (e.g.,
46 <filename class="devicefile">hda5</filename>). This book will refer to
47 this as the CLFS partition. Also remember the designation of the swap
48 partition. These names will be needed later for the
49 <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> file.</para>
50
51</sect1>
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