4.8. Partitioning Your System

4.8. Partitioning Your System

If you chose automatic partitioning and did not select Review, skip ahead to Section 4.9, “Network Configuration”.

If you chose automatic partitioning and selected Review, you can either accept the current partition settings (click Next), or modify the setup using Disk Druid, the manual partitioning tool.

If you chose to partition manually, you must tell the installation program where to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This is done by defining mount points for one or more disk partitions in which Red Hat Enterprise Linux is installed.

You may also need to create and/or delete partitions at this time.

Note

If you have not yet planned how to set up your partitions, refer to Appendix D, An Introduction to Disk Partitions and Section 4.8.4, “Recommended Partitioning Scheme”. At a bare minimum, you need an appropriately-sized root partition, and a swap partition equal to twice the amount of RAM you have on the system.

Partitioning with Disk Druid

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Figure 4.5. Partitioning with Disk Druid


The partitioning tool used by the installation program is Disk Druid. With the exception of certain esoteric situations, Disk Druid can handle the partitioning requirements for a typical installation.


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