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commit 30025733d4542256db95a42a76ccefe14b74c266
Author: Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Fri Apr 3 16:18:55 2026 -0500

    Add a subsection with an example disk layout.
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 chapter02/creatingpartition.xml | 63 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 63 insertions(+)

diff --git a/chapter02/creatingpartition.xml b/chapter02/creatingpartition.xml
index f5bb244cb..7f4a31aaa 100644
--- a/chapter02/creatingpartition.xml
+++ b/chapter02/creatingpartition.xml
@@ -198,4 +198,67 @@
 
     </sect3>
   </sect2>
+
+  <sect2>
+  <title>An Example Disk Layout</title>
+
+  <para>Below is an example layout for an empty disk drive.</para>
+
+<screen>Number  Start (sector)    End (sector)        Size   Code  Name
+   1            2048           22527       10.0 MiB  EF00  EFI system partition
+   2           22528           24575     1024.0 KiB  EF02  BIOS boot partition
+   3           24576         1048575      500.0 MiB  8300  /boot
+   4         1048576         5242879        2.0 GiB  8200  swap
+   5         5242880        89128959       40.0 GiB  8300  lfs13.0+
+   6        89128960       173015039       40.0 GiB  8300  /home</screen>
+
+  <para>The above example makes a few assumptions:
+     <itemizedlist>
+       <listitem>
+         <para>The table type is a GUID Partition Table (GPT).</para>
+       </listitem>
+
+       <listitem>
+         <para>Both EFI and BIOS Boot partitions are present, although
+         only one will be used. Which is used depends on the system BIOS.
+         If the system is old, it will not have UEFI capabilities at all.
+         Some later systems can disable UEFI through the BIOS by disabling
+         "Secure Boot" and enabling "Legacy Support" or "CSM" (Compatibility
+         Support Mode).  If you know in advance which mode you will use,
+         the other partition can be omitted.</para>
+       </listitem>
+
+       <listitem>
+         <para>The EFI partition must formatted as VFAT.</para>
+       </listitem>
+
+       <listitem>
+         <para>The BIOS partition is not formatted.</para>
+       </listitem>
+       
+       <listitem>
+         <para>The swap partition must be formatted as swap.</para>
+       </listitem>
+       
+       <listitem>
+         <para>The /boot partition can be formatted as ext2 since
+         it is rarely written (and then only by root) and does
+         not need a journal.</para>
+       </listitem>
+       
+       <listitem>
+         <para>The recommendation for all other partitions is to use ext4 
+         formatting.</para>
+       </listitem>
+
+       <listitem>
+         <para>Another partition can be added for installing the "host"
+         system for building LFS. A minimal sized partition, 10 GiB, should be
+         sufficient.</para>
+       </listitem>
+
+     </itemizedlist>
+
+  </para>
+  </sect2>
 </sect1>

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