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-<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:ns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:ns3="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:ns4="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:ns5="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:ns6="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" version="5.0" xml:id="doPartitionDisks">
- <!---->
- <!-- lebarhon 20161216 updated for Mageia 6
-
-lebarhon 20170209 added SC-->
- <info>
- <title xml:id="doPartitionDisks-ti1">Partitioning</title>
- </info>
- <para xml:id="doPartitionDisks-pa1" revision="1">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
- <application>Mageia</application>.</para>
- <para xml:id="doPartitionDisks-pa2" revision="1">The options available from
- the list below will vary depending on your particular hard drive(s) layout
- and content.</para>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject condition="classical">
- <imagedata fileref="dx2-doPartitionDisks.png" align="center"/>
- </imageobject>
- <imageobject condition="live">
- <imagedata fileref="live-doPartitionDisks.png" align="center"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- <para revision="1" xml:id="doPartitionDisks-pa3"><itemizedlist><listitem><para revision="1" xml:id="doPartitionDisks-pa4">Use Existing
- Partitions</para><para xml:id="doPartitionDisks-pa5" revision="1">If this option is
- available, then existing Linux compatible partitions have been found
- and may be used for the installation.</para></listitem><listitem><para xml:id="doPartitionDisks-pa6" revision="1">Use Free Space</para><para xml:id="doPartitionDisks-pa7" revision="1">If you have unused
- space on your hard drive then this option will use it for your new
- Mageia installation.</para></listitem><listitem><para xml:id="doPartitionDisks-pa8" revision="1">Use Free Space on a
- Windows Partition</para><para xml:id="doPartitionDisks-pa9" revision="1">If you have unused
- space on an existing Windows partition, the installer may offer to use
- it.</para><para xml:id="doPartitionDisks-pa10" revision="2">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!</para><para revision="3" xml:id="doPartitionDisks-pa11">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.</para><para>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.</para><mediaobject><imageobject condition="classical"><imagedata fileref="dx2-doPartitionDisks2.png" align="center"/></imageobject><imageobject condition="live"><imagedata fileref="live-doPartitionDisks2.png" align="center"/></imageobject></mediaobject></listitem></itemizedlist> <itemizedlist><listitem><para xml:id="doPartitionDisks-pa12" revision="1">Erase and use Entire
- Disk.</para><para xml:id="doPartitionDisks-pa13" revision="1">This option will use
- the complete drive for Mageia.</para><para xml:id="doPartitionDisks-pa14" revision="1">Note! This will
- erase ALL data on the selected hard drive. Take care!</para><para xml:id="doPartitionDisks-pa15" revision="1">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.</para></listitem></itemizedlist><itemizedlist><listitem><para xml:id="doPartitionDisks-pa16" revision="1">Custom disk
- partitioning</para><para xml:id="doPartitionDisks-pa17" revision="1">This gives you
- complete control over the placing of the installation on your hard
- drive(s).</para></listitem></itemizedlist></para>
- <para><emphasis role="bold">Partition sizing:</emphasis></para>
- <para>The installer will share the available place out according to the
- following rules:</para>
- <para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>If the total available place is lower than 50 GB, only one
- partition is created for /, there is no separate partition for
- /home.</para></listitem><listitem><para>If the total available place is over 50 GB, then three
- partitions are created</para><itemizedlist><listitem><para>6/19 of the total available place is allocated to / with a
- maximum of 50 GB</para></listitem><listitem><para>1/19 is allocated to swap with a maximum of 4 GB</para></listitem><listitem><para>the rest (at least 12/19) is allocated to /home</para></listitem></itemizedlist></listitem></itemizedlist></para>
- <para>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.</para>
- <note>
- <para>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</para>
- </note>
- <note>
- <para>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 <xref linkend="diskdrake"/> to be able to create it with the Installer like any
- other partition, just select BIOS boot partition as filesystem
- type.</para>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject condition="classical">
- <imagedata align="center" fileref="dx2-doPartitionDisks3.png"/>
- </imageobject>
- <imageobject condition="live">
- <imagedata fileref="live-doPartitionDisks3.png"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- <mediaobject>
- <imageobject>
- <imagedata fileref="dx2-doPartitionDisks4.png"/>
- </imageobject>
- </mediaobject>
- </note>
- <warning>
- <para>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:</para>
- <para>"Align to" "MiB"</para>
- <para>"Free space preceding (MiB)" "2"</para>
- <para>Also make sure all partitions are created with an even number of
- megabytes.</para>
- </warning>
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