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  computer. If you don't agree with the <span class="application">DrakX</span>
  suggestions, you can change the mount points.</p><div class="note" title="Note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;"><h3 class="title">Note</h3><p>If you change anything, make sure you still have a
    <code class="literal">/</code> (root) partition.</p></div><div class="itemizedlist"><ul class="itemizedlist" type="disc"><li class="listitem"><p>Every partition is shown as follows: "Device" ("Capacity", "Mount
      point", "Type").</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>"Device", is made up of: "hard drive", ["hard drive
      number"(letter)], "partition number" (for example, "sda5").</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>If you have many partitions, you can choose many different mount
      points from the drop down menu, such as <code class="literal">/</code>,
      <code class="literal">/home</code> and <code class="literal">/var</code>. You can even make
      your own mount points, for instance <code class="literal">/video</code> for a
      partition where you want to store your films, or
      <code class="literal">/cauldron-home</code> for the <code class="literal">/home</code>
      partition of a cauldron install.</p></li><li class="listitem"><p>For partitions you don't need to have access to, you can leave the
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    choose, and then tick <span class="guilabel">Custom disk partitioning</span>. In
    the screen that follows, you can click on a partition to see its type
    and size.</p></div><p>If you are sure the mount points are correct, click on
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