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                  <h2 class="title"><a name="doPartitionDisks"></a>Partitioning
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         <p><a name="doPartitionDisks-pa1"></a>In this screen you can see
            the content of your hard drive(s) and see the solutions the DrakX
            partitioning wizard found for where to install
              <span class="application">Mageia</span>.
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         <p><a name="doPartitionDisks-pa2"></a>The options available from
              the list below will vary depending on your particular hard drive(s) layout
              and content.
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                  <p><a name="doPartitionDisks-pa4"></a>Use Existing
                             Partitions
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                  <p><a name="doPartitionDisks-pa5"></a>If this option is
                             available, then existing Linux compatible partitions have been found
                             and may be used for the installation.
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                  <p><a name="doPartitionDisks-pa6"></a>Use Free Space
                  </p>
                  <p><a name="doPartitionDisks-pa7"></a>If you have unused
                             space on your hard drive then this option will use it for your new
                             Mageia installation.
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                  <p><a name="doPartitionDisks-pa8"></a>Use Free Space on a
                             Windows Partition
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                  <p><a name="doPartitionDisks-pa9"></a>If you have unused
                             space on an existing Windows partition, the installer may offer to use
                             it.
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                  <p><a name="doPartitionDisks-pa10"></a>This can be a useful
                             way of making room for your new Mageia installation, but is a risky
                             operation so you should make sure you have backed up all important
                             files!
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                  <p><a name="doPartitionDisks-pa11"></a>Note that this
                             involves shrinking the size of the Windows partition. The partition
                             must be "clean", meaning that Windows must have closed down correctly
                             the last time it was used. It must also have been defragmented,
                             although this is not a guarantee that all files in the partition have
                             been moved out of the area that is about to be used. It is highly
                             recommended to back up your personal files.
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                  <p>With this option, the installer displays the remaining Windows
                             partition in light blue and the future Mageia partition in dark blue
                             with their intended sizes just under. You have the possibility to
                             adapt these sizes by clicking and dragging the gap between both
                             partitions. See the screen-shot below.
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                  <p><a name="doPartitionDisks-pa12"></a>Erase and use Entire
                             Disk.
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                  <p><a name="doPartitionDisks-pa13"></a>This option will use
                             the complete drive for Mageia.
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                  <p><a name="doPartitionDisks-pa14"></a>Note! This will
                             erase ALL data on the selected hard drive. Take care!
                  </p>
                  <p><a name="doPartitionDisks-pa15"></a>If you intend to use
                             part of the disk for something else, or you already have data on the
                             drive that you are not prepared to lose, then do not use this
                             option.
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                  <p><a name="doPartitionDisks-pa16"></a>Custom disk
                             partitioning
                  </p>
                  <p><a name="doPartitionDisks-pa17"></a>This gives you
                             complete control over the placing of the installation on your hard
                             drive(s).
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               </li>
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         <p><span class="bold"><strong>Partition sizing:</strong></span></p>
           
         <p>The installer will share the available place out according to the
              following rules:
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                  <p>If the total available place is lower than 50 GB, only one
                             partition is created for /, there is no separate partition for
                             /home.
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                  <p>If the total available place is over 50 GB, then three
                             partitions are created
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                           <p>6/19 of the total available place is allocated to / with a
                                          maximum of 50 GB
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                        <li class="listitem">
                           <p>1/19 is allocated to swap with a maximum of 4 GB</p>
                        </li>
                        <li class="listitem">
                           <p>the rest (at least 12/19) is allocated to /home</p>
                        </li>
                     </ul>
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         <p>That means that from 160 GB and over of available place, the installer
              will create three partitions: 50 GB for /, 4 GB for swap and the rest for
              /home.
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                     <p>If you are using an UEFI system, the ESP (EFI System Partition) will
                            be automatically detected, or created if it does not exist yet, and
                            mounted on /boot/EFI. The "Custom disk partitioning" option is the only
                            one that allows to check it has been correctly done
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                     <p>If you are using a Legacy (as known as CSM or BIOS) system with a
                            GPT disk, you need to create a Bios boot partition if not already
                            existing. It is an about 1 MiB partition with no mount point. Choose <a class="xref" href="diskdrake.html" title="Custom disk partitioning with DiskDrake">the section called &#8220;Custom disk partitioning with
                               DiskDrake&#8221;</a> to be able to create it with the Installer like any
                            other partition, just select BIOS boot partition as filesystem
                            type.
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                     <p>Some newer drives are now using 4096 byte logical sectors, instead
                            of the previous standard of 512 byte logical sectors. Due to lack of
                            available hardware, the partitioning tool used in the installer has not
                            been tested with such a drive. Also some ssd drives now use an erase block
                            size over 1 MB. We suggest to pre-partition the drive, using an
                            alternative partitioning tool like gparted, if you own such a device, and
                            to use the following settings:
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                     <p>"Align to" "MiB"</p>
                         
                     <p>"Free space preceding (MiB)" "2"</p>
                         
                     <p>Also make sure all partitions are created with an even number of
                            megabytes.
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