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Chapter 4. Installing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 35
swap is recommended. Creating a large swap space partition can be especially helpful if you plan
to upgrade your RAM at a later time.
Tip
If your partitioning scheme requires a swap partition that is larger than 2 GB, you should create
an additional swap partition. For example, if you have 4 GB of RAM, you may want to create two 2
GB swap partitions.
•
A
/boot/
partition (100 MB) — the partition mounted on
/boot/
contains the operating system
kernel (which allows your system to boot Red Hat Enterprise Linux, along with files used during
the bootstrap process. Due to the limitations of most PC BIOSes, creating a small partition to hold
these files is a good idea. For most users, a 100 MB boot partition is sufficient.
Caution
If your hard drive is more than 1024 cylinders (and your system was manufactured more than two
years ago), you may need to create a
/boot/
partition if you want the
/
(root) partition to use all
of the remaining space on your hard drive.
Caution
If you have a RAID card, be aware that some BIOSes do not support booting from the RAID card.
In cases such as these, the
/boot/
partition must be created on a partition outside of the RAID
array, such as on a separate hard drive.
•
A
root
partition (350 MB - 5.0 GB) — this is where "
/
" (the root directory) is located. In this
setup, all files (except those stored in
/boot
) are on the root partition.
A 350 MB partition allows you to install a minimal installation, while a 5.0 GB root partition lets
you perform a full installation, choosing all package groups.
•
A
/var/
partition (3.0 GB or larger) — the
/var/
partition is where variable data files are writ-
ten. This includes spool directories and files, administrative and logging data, and transient and
temporary files. Updates that are applied to Red Hat Enterprise Linux are written to the
/var/
partition.
4.17.5. Adding Partitions
To add a new partition, select the New button. A dialog box appears (refer to Figure 4-14).
Note
You must dedicate at least one partition for this installation, and optionally more. For more information,
refer to Appendix D An Introduction to Disk Partitions .