method to partition

AUTOMATICALLY PARTITION

• allows you to perform an installation without having to partition your drives yourself.
• user do not have to do the partition.

MANUAL PARTITION USING GUI ( EG: DISK DRUID )

• Disk Druid partition is a program that partitions your hard drive for you.
• Disk Druid can handle the partitioning requirements for a typical LINUX installation

example of partition using GUI ( disk druid )

FDISK UTILITY

• Is a menu driven program for creation and manipulation of partition tables and create partition using command prompt.

example of partitioning using fdisk

example of partioning using fdisk

GNU PARTED

• A graphical partition editor for creating, reorganizing, and deleting disk partitions.
• This is useful for creating space for new operating system, reorganizing hard disk usage,copying data between hard disks and disk imaging.

example of partitioning using GNU parted