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=== Demo setup ===
Follow [https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:AMD64/Installation/Disks#Partitioning_the_disk_with_GPT_for_UEFI this] setup to test.
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Device Start End Sectors Size Type
/dev/sda3 2623488 19400703 16777216 8G Linux filesystem
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{{Tip|I'd recommend playing with this in [https://www.virtualbox.org/ VirtualBox] because it is very difficult to change these on your filesystem once you have data on it. In fact, }}
{{Warning|You destroy all data when running these commands, so if you're doing this on your system just move everything off the drives before running these commands.}}
== Logical volume management (LVM) ==
I'd highly, highly recommend following along with [https://www.howtoforge.com/linux_lvm this tutorial] within an LVM. You will be very comfortable with all of these commands after this.
{{Warning|You destroy all data when running these commands, so if you're doing this on your system just move everything off the drives before running these commands.}}
=== Demo setup ===
Here's my computer's setup:
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/dev/lvm/lv_root / ext4 defaults 0 1
/dev/lvm/lv_home /home ext4 defaults 0 2
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