Partitioning
 

Main Options

• Use Existing Partitions

  If this option is available, then existing Linux compatible partitions have been found and may be used for the installation.

• Use Free Space

  If you have unused space on your hard drive then this option will use it for your new Mageia installation.

• Use Free Space on a Windows Partition

  If you have unused space on an existing Windows partition, the installer may offer to use it. This can be a useful way of making room for your new Mageia installation, but is a risky operation so you should make sure you have backed up all important files!

  With this option, the installer displays the remaining Windows partition in light blue and the proposed Mageia partition in dark blue with their intended sizes just underneath. You have the option to modify these sizes by clicking and dragging the gap between both partitions. See the following screenshot:

• Erase and use Entire Disk

  This option will allocate the entire drive for Mageia

  Pozor

  This will erase ALL data on the selected hard drive. Take care! If you intend to use part of the disk for something else, or you already have data on the drive that you are not prepared to lose, then do not use this option.

  Pomembno

  Note that this involves shrinking the size of the Windows partition. The partition must be "clean", meaning that Windows must have closed down correctly the last time it was used. It must also have been defragmented, although this is not a guarantee that all files in the partition have been moved out of the area that is about to be used. It is highly recommended to back up your personal files.

• Custom Disk Partitioning

  S tem imate popoln nadzor nad namestitvijo na (enem ali več) vaših diskov.

• If the total available space is less than 50 GB, then only one partition is created. This will be the / (root) partition.

• Če je vsega razpoložljivega prostora na voljo več kot 50 GB, bodo ustvarjeni trije razdelki

  • 6/19 of the total available place is allocated to / with a maximum of 50 GB

  • 1/19 is allocated to swap with a maximum of 4 GB

  • the rest (at least 12/19) is allocated to /home

• 50 GB for /

• 4 GB for swap

• and the remainder for /home

• To the left of the drop-down menus is a list of available partitions. For example: sda is a hard drive - and 5 is a partition number, followed by the (capacity, mount point, filesystem type) of the partition.

• If you have several partitions, you can choose various different mount points from the drop down menu, such as /, /home and /var. You can even make your own mount points, for instance /video for a partition where you want to store your films, or perhaps /Data for all your data files.

• For any partitions that you don't need to make use of, you can leave the mount point field blank.

• Click on Previous if you are at all unsure about your choice.

• Click on Next to proceed if you are sure that it is OK to erase every partition, every operating system and all data that might be on that hard disk.

• Modify the layout of your disk(s) here. You can remove or create partitions, change the filesystem or size of a partition and even view their details before you start.

• There is a tab at the top for every detected hard disk (or other storage device, like a USB key). In the screenshot above there are two available devices: sda and sdb.

• For all other actions: click on the desired partition first. Then view it, or choose a filesystem and a mount point, resize it or wipe it. Expert mode provides more options such as to label (name) a partition, or to choose a partition type.

• Continue until you have adjusted everything to your satisfaction, then click Done when you're ready.