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<title>Creating a new partition</title>
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<?dbhtml filename="creatingpart.html" dir="chapter04"?>
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-<para>It is possible to build LFS on only one partition - the partition
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-in which your original distribution is installed. While this is not
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-recommended for your first LFS installation, it may be useful if you
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-are short on disk space. If you feel brave, take a look at the
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-<emphasis>Install LFS next to existing systems on the same
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-partition</emphasis> hint at <ulink
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-url="&hints-root;lfs_next_to_existing_systems.txt"/>.</para>
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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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+same partition as the one on which your current distribution is installed.
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+This procedure is not recommended for your first LFS install, but if you
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+are short on disk space, and you feel brave, take a look at the hint at
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+<ulink url="&hints-root;lfs_next_to_existing_systems.txt"/>.</para>
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-<para>Before we can build our new Linux system, we need an empty
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-Linux partition where we can build it. We recommend a partition size
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-of at least 1 GB. This provides enough space to store the tarballs and
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-compile all of the packages. You will probably need more space if you
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-intend to install additional software and use the LFS system as your
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-primary Linux system. If a Linux native partition is already available,
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-this subsection can be skipped.</para>
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+<para>For a minimal system you will need a partition of around 1 GB.
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+This is enough to store all the source tarballs and compile all the packages.
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+But if you intend to use the LFS system as your primary Linux system, you
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+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>Since your system memory can only hold a limited amount of data
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-at one time, we recommend that disk space be set aside for swap files.
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-A swap file is a place where items in memory may be stored until they
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-are called for. This disk space may be shared between your host system
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-and your LFS system. If you already have a swap partition, then you
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-probably don't need to create another one. Otherwise, you should create
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-a swap partition via an fdisk program. Regardless, you need to remember
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-the designation of the swap partition (such as hda2) as it will be needed
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-when we create the <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> file.</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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+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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+a swap partition.</para>
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-<para>The cfdisk program (or another fdisk-like program) should be
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-started with the appropriate hard disk as the argument (like /dev/hda
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-if a new partition is to be created on the primary master IDE disk).
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-Using this program, create a Linux native partition. Please refer to
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-the documentation of your fdisk program (the man pages are often a
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-good place to start) for information about creating Linux native
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-partitions and writing partition tables.</para>
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+<para>Start the <filename>cfdisk</filename> program with as argument the name
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+of the hard disk upon 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 if needed a swap partition. Please refer to the man page of
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+<filename>cfdisk</filename> if you don't yet know how to use the program.</para>
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-<para>The designation of your new partition should be remembered.
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-It might be something similar to hda11. This newly created partition
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-will be referred to as the LFS partition in this book.</para>
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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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</sect1>
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Gerard Beekmans