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i have cleared a hdd for install of mageia, and have my media downloaded, created, and tested just want to know what i can expect as far as partitions. what i'd like to know since i will be installing ueif / efi / gpt is if i will have to custom partition to avoid multiple partitions for mageia? basically all i want to see on the drive is the 32 bit boot partition and one master partition for mageia, not the 32 bit partition and 2 to 3 partitions for mageia. i'd rather have a swap folder than a swap partition. thanks in advance for any help with this. so i would be looking at:

1st partitiom: fat32 /boot/efi
2nd partition ext4 /

By default you'll get a swap, / and /home partition, if you have more then 50GB available on your disk. If you have less then 50GB you only get a / partition.
If you only want one partition, then switch to custom partitioning.
See http://doc.mageia.org/installer/6/en/co ... Disks.html and also the section on custom partitioning a bit further down.

o.k. cool thanks, so in a nutshell mahia can be installed to a single partition. i ask cause i know not all distros have updated to allow for this. thanks again.

The installer also can configure LVM; one (or more) disk partitions "physical volumes" can be used for one "volume group", ans in that you can create "logical volumes" for /, /home/, swap, etc, and you can extend them while the system is running (supported by diskdrake), you can use instant snapshot functionality (use command line) and more if you want to go advanced. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logical_V ... ger_(Linux)