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 <title>Creating a New Partition</title>
 <?dbhtml filename="creatingpartition.html"?>
 
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 <para>Like most other operating systems, LFS is usually installed on
-a dedicated partition.  If you have an empty partition or enough
-unpartitioned space on one of your hard disks to make one, using this
-for your LFS installation is recommended.  However, an LFS system (in
+a dedicated partition.  The recommended approach to building an LFS
+system is to use an available empty partition or, if you have enough
+unpartitioned space, to create one. However, an LFS system (in
 fact even multiple LFS systems) may also be installed on a partition
 already occupied by another operating system and the different systems
 will co-exist peacefully.  The document
 <ulink url="&hints-root;lfs_next_to_existing_systems.txt"/> explains
 how to implement this, whereas this book discusses the method of
 using a fresh partition for the installation.</para>
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 <para>A minimal system requires a partition of around 1.3 gigabytes
 (GB).  This is enough to store all the source tarballs and compile 
 the packages. However, if the LFS system is intended to be the primary
 Linux system, additional software will probably be installed which
 will require additional space (2 or 3 GB). The LFS system itself will
-not take up this much space. A large portion of this required amount
-of space is to provide sufficient free temporary space. Compiling
+not take up this much room. A large portion of this requirement
+is to provide sufficient free temporary storage. Compiling
 packages can require a lot of disk space which will be reclaimed after
 the package is installed.</para>
 
 <para>Because there is not always enough Random Access Memory (RAM)
 available for compilation processes, it is a good idea to use a small
-disk partition as swap space.  This space is used by the kernel to
-store seldom-used data to make room in memory for active processes.
+disk partition as swap space.  This is used by the kernel to
+store seldom-used data and leave more memory available for active processes.
 The swap partition for an LFS system can be the same as the one used
-by the host system, so another swap partition will not need to be
-created if your host system already has one setup.</para>
+by the host system, in which case it is not necessary to create another
+one.</para>
 
 <para>Start a disk partitioning program such as
 <command>cfdisk</command> or <command>fdisk</command> with a command