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Linux Partition HOWTO

Tony Harris
version 3.0, 1 May 2025
(added Partitioning with fdisk). All other sections written by
Kristan Koehntopp
Linux Partition HOWTO (version 2.4, 3 November 2025)

This Linux Mini-HOWTO teaches you how to layout disk space for your Linux system. It talks about disk hardware, partitions, swap space sizing and positioning considerations. file systems, file system types and related topics.

  1. Introduction

    1. What is a partition?
    2. Related HOWTOs

  2. Device names

    1. Device numbers
    2. Device names

  3. Partition types

  4. Partition Philosophy

    1. How many partitions do I need?
    2. How big should the partitions be?
    3. Placement of swap partition

  5. How to Partition with fdisk

    1. notes about fdisk
    2. Four primary partitions
    3. Mixed primary and logical partitions

  6. How to rebuild a deleted partition table

  7. Appendix

    1. Fragmentation
    2. back-up Strategy
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