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+ <title>12.&nbsp;Choose Partitions to Be Formatted</title>
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+ <h2 class="title" style="clear: both"><a name="drakxid-formatPartitions"></a>12.&nbsp;Choose Partitions to Be Formatted
+ </h2>
+ </div>
+ </div>
+ </div>
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+ <div class="note" title="Note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
+ <table border="0" summary="Note">
+ <tr>
+ <td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"><img alt="[Note]" src="../common/images/note.png"></td>
+ <th align="left">Note</th>
+ </tr>
+ <tr>
+ <td align="left" valign="top">
+
+ <p><a name="BIdNEW-drakxid-formatPartitions-pa8"></a>This
+ step is available only if you chose to reuse existing
+ <span class="application">Linux</span> partitions.
+ </p>
+
+ </td>
+ </tr>
+ </table>
+ </div>
+
+
+ <div class="mediaobject" align="center"><img src="images/dx-formatPartitions.png" align="middle"></div>
+
+
+ <p><a name="BId-drakxid-formatPartitions-pa2"></a><a class="indexterm" name="BId-drakxid-formatPartitions-it1"></a>If
+ you chose to reuse some legacy <span class="application">GNU/Linux</span> partitions, you may wish
+ to reformat some of them and erase any data they contain. To do so,
+ please select those partitions as well.
+ </p>
+
+
+ <p><a name="BId-drakxid-formatPartitions-pa3"></a>Please note that it's
+ not necessary to reformat all <a class="indexterm" name="BId-drakxid-formatPartitions-it2"></a>pre-existing partitions. You must reformat the
+ partitions containing the operating system (such as
+ <code class="literal">/</code>, <code class="literal">/usr</code> or
+ <code class="literal">/var</code>) but not the partitions containing data you
+ wish to keep (typically <code class="literal">/home</code>).
+ </p>
+
+
+ <p><a name="BId-drakxid-formatPartitions-pa4"></a>Please be
+ careful when selecting partitions. After the formatting is
+ completed, <span class="emphasis"><em>all data on the selected partitions will be
+ deleted</em></span> and you won't be able to recover it.
+ </p>
+
+
+ <p><a name="BId-drakxid-formatPartitions-pa5"></a>Click on
+ <span class="guibutton">Next</span> when you're ready to format the
+ partitions.
+ </p>
+
+
+ <p><a name="BId-drakxid-formatPartitions-pa6"></a>Click on
+ <span class="guibutton">Previous</span> if you want to choose other
+ partitions for your new <span class="application">Mageia</span> operating system
+ installation.
+ </p>
+
+
+ <p><a name="BId-drakxid-formatPartitions-pa7"></a>Click on
+ <span class="guibutton">Advanced</span> if you wish to select partitions
+ which will be checked for <a class="indexterm" name="BId-drakxid-formatPartitions-it3"></a>bad blocks on the disk.
+ </p>
+
+ </div>
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