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<sect1 id="ch04-creatingpart">
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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>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>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>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>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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</sect1>
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