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Custom disk partitioning

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http://forums.fedoraforum.org – Speaking solely about the installers disk partitioning tool, I found the custom partition tools painfully lacking. I see where the developers are headed but there are some usability issues. 1. Lack of explanation 2. Lack of intuitiveness 3. Lack of features I almost gave up on the custom partition because I was given 2 fields (mount point & partition size) in the add partition dialog. The problem is as follows: Partitions I wanted to created (standard) /boot [ 500MB (ext4) ] / [ fill to maximum allowable (ext4) ] swap [ 2048 (swap) ] With the given fields (HowTos)

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Submitted by sine on 09/19/2012

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Linux needs at least one partition, namely for its root file system. It can use swap files and/or swap partitions, but the latter are more efficient. So, usually one will want a second Linux partition dedicated as swap partition.

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