
Editing a New Partition

To create a new partition, you must first assign the
partition a mount point. If this is the root partition,
enter /; if this is the swap partition, enter swap; if
this is the boot partition, enter /boot; and so on.

Next, enter the size of the partition. If most/all of
your data will be written to the / (root) partition, you
should create a partition at least 900MB (based on a
workstation-class installation); custom- (choosing every
package) and server-class installations should be
larger. Your swap partition should be 16MB or higher
(generally equal to the amount of RAM you have, not to
exceed 256MB). Your /boot partition should be 16MB.

When creating Linux partitions, the only partition that
is not of the Linux native type is the swap partition,
which is Linux swap.

Selecting Grow to fill disk allows that partition to
increase or decrease in size as files are added and/or
removed from your system. Selecting this option for
partitions, such as the / (root) partition, which will
have data constantly written to it is always a good
idea.

Allowable Drives lets you select which hard drive(s) on
your system to create that partition on. If you have two
or more hard drives, but only want to create Linux
partitions on one of them, make sure only that drive in
particular is selected.

Once you are satisfied with the partition's settings,
select OK and press [Space], and that partition will be
created.

Choose Cancel and press [Space] if you do not want to
create the partition with those settings.
