| 1234567891011121314151617181920212223242526 | <sect1 id="ch04-creatingpart"><title>Creating a new partition</title><para>Before we can build our new Linux system, we need to have an empty Linuxpartition on which we can build our new system. I recommend a partition sizeof around 750 MB. This gives you enough space to store all the tarballs and to compile all packages without worrying running out of the necessary temporary disk space. If you already have a Linux Native partition available, you can skip this subsection.</para><para>Start the fdisk program (or another fdisk program you prefer) with theappropriate hard disk as the option (like /dev/hda if you want to create anew partition on the primary master IDE disk). Create a Linux Nativepartition, write the partition table and exit the fdisk program. If you getthe message that you need to reboot your system to ensure that the partitiontable is updated, then please reboot your system now before continuing.Remember what your new partition's designation is. It could be somethinglike hda11 (as it is in my case). This newly created partition will bereferred to as the LFS partition in this book.</para></sect1>
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