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<!-- Converted by db4-upgrade version 1.0 -->
<section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:id="drakxid-formatPartitions" revision="1" condition="extra"><info><title xml:id="BId-drakxid-formatPartitions-ti1">Deprecated - Choose Partitions to Be Formatted</title></info>
<note>
<para xml:id="BIdNEW-drakxid-formatPartitions-pa8" revision="2">This
step is available only if you chose to reuse existing
<application>Linux</application> partitions.</para>
</note>
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<imageobject>
<imagedata align="center" fileref="dx-formatPartitions.png" format="PNG" xml:id="BId-drakxid-formatPartitions-im1" revision="1" width="11.5cm"/>
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</mediaobject>
<para xml:id="BId-drakxid-formatPartitions-pa2" revision="1"><indexterm xml:id="BId-drakxid-formatPartitions-it1">
<primary>partitions</primary><secondary>formatting</secondary></indexterm>If
you chose to reuse some legacy <application>GNU/Linux</application> partitions, you may wish
to reformat some of them and erase any data they contain. To do so,
please select those partitions as well.</para>
<para xml:id="BId-drakxid-formatPartitions-pa3">Please note that it's
not necessary to reformat all <indexterm xml:id="BId-drakxid-formatPartitions-it2">
<primary>partitions</primary><secondary>pre-existing</secondary>
</indexterm>pre-existing partitions. You must reformat the
partitions containing the operating system (such as
<literal>/</literal>, <literal>/usr</literal> or
<literal>/var</literal>) but not the partitions containing data you
wish to keep (typically <literal>/home</literal>).</para>
<para xml:id="BId-drakxid-formatPartitions-pa4" revision="1">Please be
careful when selecting partitions. After the formatting is
completed, <emphasis>all data on the selected partitions will be
deleted</emphasis> and you won't be able to recover it.</para>
<para xml:id="BId-drakxid-formatPartitions-pa5" revision="1">Click on
<guibutton>Next</guibutton> when you're ready to format the
partitions.</para>
<para xml:id="BId-drakxid-formatPartitions-pa6" revision="1">Click on
<guibutton>Previous</guibutton> if you want to choose other
partitions for your new <application>Mageia</application> operating system
installation.</para>
<para xml:id="BId-drakxid-formatPartitions-pa7">Click on
<guibutton>Advanced</guibutton> if you wish to select partitions
which will be checked for <indexterm xml:id="BId-drakxid-formatPartitions-it3">
<primary>partitions</primary><secondary>bad
blocks</secondary></indexterm>bad blocks on the disk.</para>
</section>
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