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IBM
Eserver
xSeries 455 Planning and Installation Guide
In our case, we had a two-node configuration, and per server we made an array
RAID level 1, and installed the following operating systems:
Windows Server 2003, Datacenter Edition in disk sda and sdb, and it has the
following partitions:
– EFI System Partition (FAT16) assigned as sda1
– Two Microsoft Reserved Partitions; one assigned as sda2 and the another
as sdb1
See “Microsoft Reserved Partition” on page 137 for more information.
– Two Basic data partitions (NTFS); one assigned as sda3 and the another
as sdb2
SUSE LINUX SLES 8 in disk sda
– ESP (FAT32) named boot assigned as sda4
– Swap partition assigned as sda5
– Root or data partition (ReiserFS) assigned as sda6
See Figure 4-50 on page 169.