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+<sect1 id="ch04-creatingpart">
+<title>Creating a new partition</title>
+
+<para>
+Before we can build our new Linux system, we need to have an empty Linux
+partition on which we can build our new system. I recommend a partition size
+of around 750 MB. This gives you enough space to store all the tarballs and
+to compile all packages without worrying running out of the necessary
+temporary disk space. If you already have a Linux Native partition available,
+you can skip this subsection.
+</para>
+
+<para>
+Start the cfdisk program (or another fdisk like program you prefer) with the
+appropriate hard disk as the option (like /dev/hda if you want to create a
+new partition on the primary master IDE disk). Create a Linux Native
+partition, write the partition table and exit the dfdisk program. Remember
+what your new partition's designation is. It could be something
+like hda11 (as it is in my case). This newly created partition will be
+referred to as the LFS partition in this book.
+</para>
+
+</sect1>
+