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<info>
<title xml:id="doPartitionDisks-ti1">Suggested Partitioning</title>
</info>
<para revision="1" xml:id="doPartitionDisks-pa1">In this screen you can see
the content of your hard drive(s) along with the DrakX partitioning
proposals for where to install Mageia.</para>
<para revision="1" xml:id="doPartitionDisks-pa2">The actual 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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<title>Main Options</title>
<listitem>
<para revision="1" xml:id="doPartitionDisks-pa4"><emphasis
role="bold">Use Existing Partitions</emphasis></para>
<para revision="1" xml:id="doPartitionDisks-pa5">If this option is
available, then existing Linux compatible partitions have been found and
may be used for the installation.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para revision="1" xml:id="doPartitionDisks-pa6"><emphasis
role="bold">Use Free Space</emphasis></para>
<para revision="1" xml:id="doPartitionDisks-pa7">If you have unused
space on your hard drive then this option will use it for your new
Mageia installation.</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para revision="1" xml:id="doPartitionDisks-pa8"><emphasis
role="bold">Use Free Space on a Windows Partition</emphasis></para>
<para revision="1" xml:id="suggestedPartitioning-pa9">If you have unused
space on an existing Windows partition, the installer may offer to use
it. This can be a useful way of making room for your new Mageia
installation but see the warning below.</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.
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<warning>
<para>This involves shrinking the size of the Windows partition, and
therefore is a risky operation, so you should make sure you have
backed up all important files before proceeding.</para>
</warning>
<important>
<para revision="3" xml:id="doPartitionDisks-pa11">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 for Mageia.</para>
</important>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para revision="1" xml:id="doPartitionDisks-pa12"><emphasis
role="bold">Erase and use Entire Disk</emphasis></para>
<para revision="1" xml:id="doPartitionDisks-pa13">This option will
allocate the entire drive for Mageia</para>
<warning>
<para revision="1" xml:id="doPartitionDisks-pa14">This will erase ALL
data on the selected hard drive. Take care! 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>
</warning>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para revision="1" xml:id="doPartitionDisks-pa16"><emphasis
role="bold">Custom Disk Partitioning</emphasis></para>
<para revision="1" xml:id="doPartitionDisks-pa17">This gives you
complete control over the placing of the installation on your hard
drive(s).</para>
</listitem>
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<para>If you are not using the <emphasis>Custom disk partitioning</emphasis>
option, then the installer will allocate the available space according to
the following rules:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>If the total available space is less than 50 GB, then only one
partition is created. This will be the <filename>/</filename> (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
<filename>/</filename> with a maximum of 50 GB</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>1/19 is allocated to <filename>swap</filename> with a maximum
of 4 GB</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>the rest (at least 12/19) is allocated to
<filename>/home</filename></para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>This means that from 160 GB or greater available space, the installer
will create three partitions:</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
<para>50 GB for <filename>/</filename></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>4 GB for <filename>swap</filename></para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para>and the remainder for <filename>/home</filename></para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<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 <filename>/boot/EFI</filename>. The <emphasis>Custom disk
partitioning</emphasis> option is the only one that allows to check it has
been correctly done.</para>
<para>If you are using a Legacy (also known as BIOS) system with a GPT
partitioned disk, you need to create a BIOS boot partition if it doesn't
already exist. It should be about 1 MiB with no mount point. It can be
created with the Installer, under <emphasis>Custom disk
partitioning</emphasis>, like any other partition. Be sure to select
<quote>BIOS boot partition</quote> for filesystem type.</para>
<para>See <xref linkend="diskdrake"/> for information on how to
proceed.</para>
</note>
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<important>
<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.</para>
<para>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 gparted, and to use the following
settings:</para>
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<para><emphasis>Align to</emphasis> = MiB</para>
</listitem>
<listitem>
<para><emphasis>Free space preceding (MiB)</emphasis> = 2</para>
</listitem>
</itemizedlist>
<para>Also make sure all partitions are created using an even number of
megabytes.</para>
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