3.5. Pra-Pemartisian untuk Sistem Multi-Boot

Mempartisi disk Anda hanya mengacu pada tindakan memecah disk Anda menjadi beberapa bagian. Setiap bagian kemudian independen dari yang lain. Ini kira-kira setara dengan memasang dinding di dalam rumah; jika Anda menambahkan furnitur ke satu ruangan itu tidak mempengaruhi ruangan lain.

If you already have an operating system on your system which uses the whole disk and you want to stick Debian on the same disk, you will need to repartition it. Debian requires its own hard disk partitions. It cannot be installed on Windows or Mac OS X partitions. It may be able to share some partitions with other Unix systems, but that's not covered here. At the very least you will need a dedicated partition for the Debian root filesystem.

You can find information about your current partition setup by using a partitioning tool for your current operating system. Partitioning tools always provide a way to show existing partitions without making changes.

Secara umum, mengubah partisi dengan sistem berkas yang sudah ada di dalamnya akan menghancurkan informasi apa pun di sana. Dengan demikian Anda harus selalu membuat cadangan sebelum melakukan partisi ulang. Dengan menggunakan analogi rumah, Anda mungkin ingin memindahkan semua furnitur sebelum memindahkan dinding atau Anda berrisiko menghancurkannya.

Several modern operating systems offer the ability to move and resize certain existing partitions without destroying their contents. This allows making space for additional partitions without losing existing data. Even though this works quite well in most cases, making changes to the partitioning of a disk is an inherently dangerous action and should only be done after having made a full backup of all data.