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- <sect1 id="ch04-creatingpart">
- <title>Creating a new partition</title>
- <para>First, let me tell you that it is possible to build LFS on only
- one partition, which is where your original distribution is installed. This
- is not recommended if it is the first time you try LFS, but may be useful
- if you are short on disk space. If you feel brave, take a look at the
- one partition hint at
- <ulink
- url="&hint-root;one-partition-hint.txt">&hint-root;one-partition-hint.txt</ulink></para>
- <para>Before we can build our new Linux system, we need to have an empty Linux
- partition on which we can build our new system. I recommend a partition size
- of at least 750 MB. This gives enough space to store all the tarballs and
- to compile all packages without worrying about running out of the necessary
- temporary disk space. But you probably want more space than that if you
- plan to use the LFS system as your primary Linux system. If that's the
- case you'd want more space so you can install additional software. If a
- Linux Native partition is already available, this subsection can be skipped.</para>
- <para>The cfdisk program (or another fdisk like program you prefer)) is
- started with the appropriate hard disk as the option (like /dev/hda if a
- new partition is to be created on the primary master IDE disk). It is used
- to create a Linux Native partition, write the partition table and exit the
- cfdisk program. Please refer to the documentation that comes with your
- fdisk program of choice (the man pages are often a good place to start)
- and read the procedures about how to create a new Linux native
- partition and how to write the partition table.</para>
- <para>The new partition's designation should be remembered. It
- could be something like hda11. This newly created partition will be
- referred to as the LFS partition in this book.</para>
- </sect1>
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