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<sect3 id="partman"><title>Partitioning Your Disks</title>
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Now it is time to partition your disks. If you are uncomfortable with
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partitioning, or just want to know more details, see <xref
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linkend="partitioning"/>.
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First you will be given the opportunity to automatically partition
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either an entire drive, or free space on a drive. This is also called
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<quote>guided</quote> partitioning. If you do not want to
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autopartition, choose <guimenuitem>Manually edit partition
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table</guimenuitem> from the menu and skip to the next
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paragraph. Otherwise you will be asked if you want <guimenuitem>All
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files in one partition</guimenuitem>, <guimenuitem>Separate partition
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for home directories</guimenuitem>, or if you rather plan to have
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a <guimenuitem>Multi-user system</guimenuitem>. All schemes have their
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pros and cons, some of which are discussed in <xref
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linkend="partitioning"/>. If you are unsure, choose the first
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one. Bear in mind, that guided partitioning needs certain minimal
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amount of free space to operate with. If you don't give it at least
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about 1GB of space (depends on chosen scheme), guided partitioning
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<entry>Partitioning scheme</entry>
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<entry>Minimum space</entry>
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<entry>Created partitions</entry>
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<entry>All files in one partition</entry>
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<entry><filename>/</filename>, swap</entry>
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<entry>Separate partition for home directories</entry>
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<filename>/</filename>, <filename>/home</filename>, swap
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<entry>Multi-user system</entry>
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<filename>/</filename>, <filename>/home</filename>,
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<filename>/usr</filename>, <filename>/var</filename>,
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<filename>/tmp</filename>, swap
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</tbody></tgroup></informaltable>
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On the next screen you will see your partition table, how the
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partitions will be formatted, and where they will be mounted.
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If you did automatic partitioning, you should just be able to choose
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<guimenuitem>Finished partitioning</guimenuitem> from the menu to use
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Select partititons from the list to modify or delete them. If you have
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free space it will also show up under a drive, and you can select it
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to create new partitions. When modifying a partition you will have the
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opportunity to choose how to use the partition, the file system to
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use, and where to mount it. The partitioning menu also has a choice at
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the bottom that can be used to automatically partition a drive or
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existing free space on a drive, if you'd rather go that route. Be sure
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to create at least two partitions, one for <emphasis>swap</emphasis>
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and one for the <emphasis>root</emphasis> filesystem (which must be
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mounted as <filename>/</filename>). If you forget to mount the root
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filesystem, <command>partman</command> won't let you continue until
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you correct this issue. However, this situation should not happen,
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because <command>partman</command> by default offers reasonable
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Capabilities of <command>partman</command> can be extended with
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installer modules, so if you can't see all promised goodies, check if
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you have loaded all required modules
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(e.g. <filename>partman-ext3</filename>,
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<filename>partman-xfs</filename>, or
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<filename>partman-lvm</filename>).
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After you are satisfied with partitioning, select <guimenuitem>Finished
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partitioning</guimenuitem> from the partitioning menu. You will be
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presented with a summary of changes made to the disks and asked to
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confirm that the filesystems should be created as requested.