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Installation guide partitioning

Create the partitions depending on the partition table. See this GPT vs MBR link (and others) on what partition table to choose for your setup.

Example layouts

These example lists one of the most common setups. Create these partitions with a partitioning tool,Comprehensive how-to on creating partitions with $tool article.

UEFI with GPT

Mount point	Partition	Partition type	Suggested size
/mnt/boot1	/dev/efi_system_partition	EFI system partition	At least 300 MiB
[SWAP]2	/dev/swap_partition	Linux swap	More than 512 MiB
/mnt	/dev/root_partition	Linux x86-64 root (/)	Remainder of the device

1. Other mount points, such as /mnt/efi, are possible, provided that the used boot loader is capable of loading the kernel and initramfs images from the root volume. See the warning in Arch boot process#Boot loader.
2. Optional. See here why you might need swap.

BIOS with MBR

Mount point	Partition	Partition type	Suggested size
[SWAP]1	/dev/swap_partition	Linux swap	More than 512 MiB
/mnt	/dev/root_partition	Linux	Remainder of the device

1. Optional.

See also Partitioning#Example layouts.