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<title>Creating a new partition</title>
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<?dbhtml filename="creatingpartition.html"?>
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+<para>See testing</para>
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+
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+<!--
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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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@@ -22,7 +25,7 @@ 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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+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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@@ -30,15 +33,16 @@ 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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+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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+<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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+-->
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</sect1>
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