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A Partition Plan. Once again, don't let the Fedora 11 installation control you. You can take control. First, the space required by Fedora 11 shouldn't be intimidating. All you need is less than 10 gigabytes for all Fedora 11 packages, but don't forget that's not all the space you need. You also need space for dedicated Swap Partition, that's typically twice the amount of RAM on your system. For example if you have a system with 512 megabytes of RAM, you'll want to swap partition of a gigabyte. You'll also want space for user files. Movies, pictures, and more can take lots of space. A full DVD movie can easily take 8 or 9 gigabytes for example. Fedora can set up hard drives in partitions, or volumes. Partitions are individual physical dedicated sections of a drive. The default is good enough for most cases, and it sets up volume groups which can be made up of one or more partitions and thus can be expanded or reduced as needed. The default Fedora 11 Partition Plan also includes a dedicated partition for the boot directory, which contains critical files for the startup process, such as the Linux Kernel, the initial RAM disk, as well as related boot loader configuration files. But a single volume group, or even a partition for every other directory may not be enough. One thing I do is set up a separate partition, or sometimes a logical volume, for my Home Directory. That makes life easier when I upgrade, say, from Fedora 10 to Fedora 11, as the installation can write changes to all other directories without making changes to the personal files in my Home Directory. There are several other directories that you may consider setting up in separate volume groups or partitions. For example, the/srv directory is often used for Server files. The/var directory often gets overloaded from logs from Servers, but hey, we're talking Desktops here in this course, and in so many ways thus the default partitioning scheme is fine. However, if you want to set up the specialized directory for user files, say a directory shared with others working on a project together, it may make sense to isolate it in a different volume group or partition that would have a number of advantages. Users who have access to the Share, if they accidentally overload that directory, it wouldn't affect anything else on the system. The system would still run. Different sets of permissions and even quotas can be set up on the noted directory. And the Share directory, on a separate partition or volume, can be more easily backed up without having to waste time backing up other directories. See the advantages of a Partition Plan.