Ett Fedora system har minst tre partitioner:

Många system har fler partitioner än de minimalt listade ovan. Välj partitioner baserat på dina speciella systembehov. Till exempel, överväg att skapa en separat partition /home på de system som lagrar användardata. Gå till Avsnitt 9.4, ”Råd om partitioner” för mer information.

Om du inte är säker på hur du bäst konfigurerar partioner för din dator, acceptera den partitionslayout som är standard.

The RAM installed in your computer provides a pool of memory for running systems. Linux systems use swap partitions to expand this pool, by automatically moving portions of memory between RAM and swap partitions if insufficient RAM is available. In addition, certain power management features store all of the memory for a suspended system in the available swap partitions. If you manually specify the partitions on your system, create one swap partition that has more capacity than the computer RAM.

Data partitions provide storage for files. Each data partition has a mount point, to indicate the system directory whose contents reside on that partition. A partition with no mount point is not accessible by users. Data not located on any other partition resides in the / (or root) partition.

	Rot och /root
	The / (or root) partition is the top of the directory structure. The /root (sometimes pronounced "slash-root") directory is the home directory of the user account for system administration.

I den minimala konfigurationen ovan:

Subdirectories may be assigned to partitions as well. Some administrators create both /usr and /usr/local partitions. In that case, files under /usr/local, such as /usr/local/bin/foo, are on the /usr/local partition. Any other files in /usr/, such as /usr/bin/foo, are in the /usr partition.

If you create many partitions instead of one large / partition, upgrades become easier. Refer to the description of Disk Druid's Edit option for more information.

	Lämna överflödig kapacitet oallokerad
	Only assign storage capacity to those partitions you require immediately. You may allocate free space at any time, to meet needs as they occur. To learn about a more flexible method for storage management, refer to Avsnitt 9.3, ”Förstå LVM”.