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How Many Partitions?
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Continuing our example, it is also possible that one or more directories below
/usr/
would be mount
points for other partitions. For instance, a partition (say,
/dev/hda7
) could be mounted on
/usr/
local/
, meaning that
/usr/local/man/whatis
would then reside on
/dev/hda7
rather than
/
dev/hda5
.
26.1.8. How Many Partitions?
At this point in the process of preparing to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you must give some
consideration to the number and size of the partitions to be used by your new operating system. The
question of "how many partitions" continues to spark debate within the Linux community and, without
any end to the debate in sight, it is safe to say that there are probably as many partition layouts as
there are people debating the issue.
Keeping this in mind, we recommend that, unless you have a reason for doing otherwise, you
should at least create the following partitions:
swap
,
/boot/
(or a
/boot/efi/
partition for Itanium
systems), a
/var/
partition for Itanium systems, and
/
(root).
For more information, refer to
Section 4.19.4, “Recommended Partitioning Scheme”
.