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2.3) Partitioning

There are a few important rules to take care about when configuring

GUI
Partitions:

- You need at least a root partition (!)
- Take care to the device section: don't forget to change it to fit
  your hardware. [ Example: if your server has scsi disks, replace
  /dev/hda with /dev/sda ].
- When you choose to use extended partitions, and one of the primary
   is empty, you must configure partition 4 as the empty one .
   As you can see in sample.cfg, we have:

   ## This is OK ##

	/dev/hda1 /boot
 	/dev/hda2 swap
	/dev/hda3 extended	
	/dev/hda4 empty   <---- This will work
	/dev/hda5 /
	/dev/hda6 /var
	...

   If we change the order of partition 3 and 4, sfdisk, the tool
   that creates the partitions during the install, stops when
   finds the first empty partition ignoring the others.

   ## This is WRONG! ##

	/dev/hda1 /boot
 	/dev/hda2 swap
	/dev/hda3 empty 
	/dev/hda4 extended <---- This will NOT work !!
	/dev/hda5 /
	/dev/hda6 /var
	...
		
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