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Creating a New Partition

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Create New Partition Box

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The <emphasis role="strong">Create new Partition</emphasis> dialogue box allows you to select specifications for the new partition. Apart from defining the size of the new partition, you can also select the partition type, whether primary or logical, for the new partition. In addition, you can even define the file system to be used on the new partition. By default, Ubuntu uses the ext3 partitions. However, if you want the new drive to be readable by both Microsoft Windows and Ubuntu without installing anything extra, you can format it as Fat 32.

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If you are creating a partition on a new hard drive, select Primary Partition. An SCSI or S-ATA hard disk can have a maximum of 4 primary partitions and 11 logical partitions while an integrated development environment (IDE) hard drive can have up to 63 partitions overall. The primary partition used to house the logical partitions is called an extended partition. Unlike primary partitions, logical partitions must be contiguous: the blocks in the partition are following each other without any gap.

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Confirmation Box

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In the <emphasis role="strong">New Size (MiB)</emphasis> field, specify the size of the partition by using the up or down arrow key. You can also define the size by dragging the black bold arrows on the top white bar.

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Select Primary, Logical or Extended partition from the <emphasis role="strong">Create as</emphasis> drop-down list.

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Next, specify the file system by selecting from the <emphasis role="strong">Filesystem</emphasis> drop-down list.

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Click the <emphasis role="strong">Add</emphasis> button to complete the partition. The white bar updates to show a new partition on the disk.

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You can create multiple partitions at this stage by following the above-mentioned procedure and then clicking <emphasis role="strong">Apply</emphasis> to add them to the hard drive. The <emphasis role="strong">Apply operations to hard disk</emphasis> dialogue box appears.