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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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[578b4a4d] | 13 | <para os="a">Like most other operating systems, CLFS is usually installed on |
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| 14 | a dedicated partition. The recommended approach to building a CLFS |
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[bf8c11f] | 15 | system is to use an available empty partition or, if you have enough |
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[578b4a4d] | 16 | unpartitioned space, to create one. However, a CLFS system (in fact |
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| 17 | even multiple CLFS systems) may also be installed on a partition already |
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[bf8c11f] | 18 | occupied by another operating system and the different systems will |
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| 19 | co-exist peacefully. The document <ulink |
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| 20 | url="&hints-root;lfs_next_to_existing_systems.txt"/> explains how to |
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| 21 | implement this, whereas this book discusses the method of using a fresh |
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| 22 | partition for the installation.</para> |
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| 24 | <para os="b">A minimal system requires a partition of around 1.3 gigabytes (GB). |
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| 25 | This is enough to store all the source tarballs and compile the packages. |
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[578b4a4d] | 26 | However, if the CLFS system is intended to be the primary Linux system, |
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[bf8c11f] | 27 | additional software will probably be installed which will require |
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[b71fa50] | 28 | additional space (2-3 GB). The CLFS system itself will not take up this |
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[bf8c11f] | 29 | much room. A large portion of this requirement is to provide sufficient |
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| 30 | free temporary storage. Compiling packages can require a lot of disk space |
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| 31 | which will be reclaimed after the package is installed.</para> |
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| 33 | <para os="c">Because there is not always enough Random Access Memory (RAM) |
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| 34 | available for compilation processes, it is a good idea to use a small disk |
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| 35 | partition as swap space. This is used by the kernel to store seldom-used |
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| 36 | data and leave more memory available for active processes. The swap |
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[b71fa50] | 37 | partition for an CLFS system can be the same as the one used by the host |
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[bf8c11f] | 38 | system, in which case it is not necessary to create another one.</para> |
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| 40 | <para os="d">Start a disk partitioning program such as <command>cfdisk</command> |
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| 41 | or <command>fdisk</command> with a command line option naming the hard |
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| 42 | disk on which the new partition will be created—for example |
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| 43 | <filename class="devicefile">/dev/hda</filename> for the primary |
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| 44 | Integrated Drive Electronics (IDE) disk. Create a Linux native partition |
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| 45 | and a swap partition, if needed. Please refer to |
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| 46 | <filename>cfdisk(8)</filename> or <filename>fdisk(8)</filename> if you |
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| 47 | do not yet know how to use the programs.</para> |
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| 49 | <para os="e">Remember the designation of the new partition (e.g., |
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| 50 | <filename class="devicefile">hda5</filename>). This book will refer to |
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[578b4a4d] | 51 | this as the CLFS partition. Also remember the designation of the swap |
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[bf8c11f] | 52 | partition. These names will be needed later for the |
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| 53 | <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> file.</para> |
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| 55 | </sect1> |
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