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Partitions and More. This video provides a brief overview of the Fedora installation tool known as Disk Druid. As suggested by its name, it supports custom partitioning during the installation process but many users don't even bother with Disk Druid and that's made possible during the installation process from the screen shown here. This is a basic installation screen with several options from this particular drop-down box. You can configure the installation program to automatically use the entire drive, which would erase everything on any drives selected in this middle box here. If you choose Replace existing Linux system what it does is detect Linux configured partitions on the current drive, erase them, and make that space available for Fedora 11. Alternatively, you could have Fedora 11 analyze the current drives, see what free space is available, create new partitions from that free space, thus quote-unquote shrinking the current system. If you haven't allocated all the space on your hard drive you could set the installation program to use the available free space and, of course, you could set up a custom layout. Once you make a selection you can set up encryption for Fedora 11, which is a great feature, especially if you're afraid of somebody stealing, say, your laptop system and trying to crack the data within that system. If you have more than one drive on the local system you're asked to select it here. The Advanced storage configuration options are based on network drives slightly beyond the scope of this course. You can set up any connected drive as the boot drive and this is disabled because I have only one drive configured on this system. To see what you can do with Disk Druid select Review and modify partitioning layout, and click Next. You'll see Disk Druid gives you a standard installation configuration. It sets up a partition for the boot directory as shown here with 200 megabytes, which is plenty of room for multiple kernels and related files. It allocates the rest of the remaining available space as a logical volume. Of course, that can be changed as suggested by the options of this menu. You can configure directories on regular partitions, or RAID arrays. The advantage of logical volumes is flexibility. You can add a new hard drive and allocate that space to an existing logical volume. In contrast, the advantage of RAID is redundancy. The components of a RAID Array properly configured can survive the failure or one or two hard drives depending on the type of RAID that's configured. Details, like the type of RAID available are beyond the scope of this course. Yes, of course, you can choose regular partitions and that's the default partition configuration for a number of other distributions because of its simplicity. Whatever partition options you select be aware that installing all Fedora packages would take about 10 gigabytes and that doesn't include the space required by logs and, more importantly, user data. Hey, if you download a movie that could easily take 9 or 10 gigabytes by itself. Blue Ray, 25 gigabytes, and so on. Well, those are just the partition options available during the Fedora 11 installation process. Other parts of the installation process I cover in other videos. Thank you, and on to the next video.