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The swap partition will be checked for bad blocks, formatted, and activated. Select OK to
continue. The Select Linux Installation Partition menu appears.
9. Select a root partition. From the Linux partition that is displayed, highlight the one that
you want to use as your root (/) partition and choose Select. The / partition is where
Linux and all your data will go by default. (Other partitions can be added later.)
Choose to do a quick format (Format) or a slow format that includes bad block checking
(Check). Or you can select No to not format the partition.
Typically you would overwrite your / partition, although you might keep data from
another partition. I often maintain a separate data partition that I will attach to the file
system in a location such as /mnt/data. With that technique, I can keep my data and still install a
whole new operating system.
Choose the file system type for the root file system. These days, most people select either
the ext3 or reiserfs file system as their Linux root partition. Both of those file system
types do journaling, so they can recover quickly if the system is shut down improperly
(such as when someone kicks out the power cord).
Choose the Inode Density. Select 4096 (the default, which is fine in most cases), 2048, or
1024 bytes.
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