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<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) along with the DrakX partitioning
proposals for where to install <application>Mageia</application>.</para>
<para xml:id="doPartitionDisks-pa2" revision="1">The options available from
those shown below will vary according to the layout and content of your
particular hard drive(s).</para>
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<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 proposed Mageia partition in dark blue
with their intended sizes just underneath. You have the option to
modify these sizes by clicking and dragging the gap between both
partitions. See the following screen-shot.</para>
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<para xml:id="doPartitionDisks-pa12" revision="1">Erase and use Entire
Disk.</para>
<para xml:id="doPartitionDisks-pa13" revision="1">This option will
allocate the entire 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>
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<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>
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<para><emphasis role="bold">Partition sizing:</emphasis></para>
<para>If you are not using the <emphasis role="bold">Custom disk
partitioning</emphasis> option, the installer will allocate the available
space according to the following rules:</para>
<para><itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>If the total available space is less than 50 GB, then only one
partition is created. This will be the <emphasis role="bold">/</emphasis> (root) partition.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>If the total available space is greater than 50 GB, then three
partitions are created</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>6/19 of the total available place is allocated to <emphasis role="bold">/</emphasis> 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 <emphasis role="bold">/home.</emphasis></para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist></para>
<para>That means that from 160 GB or greater available space, the installer
will create three partitions: 50 GB for <emphasis role="bold">/</emphasis>,
4 GB for <emphasis role="bold">swap</emphasis> and the remainder for
<emphasis role="bold">/home</emphasis>.</para>
<note>
<para>If you are using a 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 <emphasis role="bold">Custom disk
partitioning</emphasis> option is the only one that allows to check it has
been correctly done</para>
</note>
<note>
<para>If you are using a Legacy (CSM or BIOS) system with a GPT disk, you
need to create a BIOS boot partition if not already existing. It is a
roughly 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 the filesystem
type.</para>
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<warning>
<para>Some newer drives are now using 4096 byte logical sectors, instead
of the previous standard of 512. Due to lack of available hardware, the
partitioning tool used in the installer has not been tested with such a
drive. Also some SSD devices now use an erase block size over 1 MB. If you
have such a device we suggest that you partition the drive in advance,
using an alternative partitioning tool like <emphasis role="bold">gparted</emphasis>, and to use the following settings:</para>
<para><emphasis role="bold">Align to</emphasis> = MiB</para>
<para><emphasis role="bold">Free space preceding (MiB)</emphasis> =
2</para>
<para>Also make sure all partitions are created using an even number of
megabytes.</para>
</warning>
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