User manual REDHAT LINUX ADVANCED SERVER 2.1 INSTALLATION GUIDE

[. . . ] Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2. 1 The Official Red Hat Linux Advanced Server Installation Guide For the Itanium® Processor Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 2. 1: For the Itanium® Processor Copyright © 2002 by Red Hat, Inc. Red Hat, Inc. 1801 Varsity Drive Raleigh NC 27606-2072 USA Phone: +1 919 754 3700 Phone: 888 733 4281 Fax: +1 919 754 3701 PO Box 13588 Research Triangle Park NC 27709 USA rhl-ig-as-itanium(EN)-2. 1-HTML-RHI (2002-09-19T10:24-0400) Copyright © 2002 by Red Hat, Inc. This material may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, V1. 0 or later (the latest version is presently available at http://www. opencontent. org/openpub/). Distribution of substantively modified versions of this document is prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. [. . . ] Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 3. 16. 5. Adding Partitions To add a new partition, select the New button. A dialog box appears (see Figure 3-13). Note You must dedicate at least one partition to Red Hat Linux Advanced Server, and optionally more. For more information, see Appendix C. Figure 3-13. Creating a New Partition · Mount Point: Enter the partition's mount point. For example, if this partition should be the root partition, enter /; enter /boot for the /boot partition, and so on. You can also use the pull-down menu to choose the correct mount point for your partition. File System Type: Using the pull-down menu, select the appropriate file system type for this partition. For more information on file system types, see Section 3. 16. 5. 1. Allowable Drives: This field contains a list of the hard disks installed on your system. If a hard disk's box is highlighted, then a desired partition can be created on that hard disk. If the box is not checked, then the partition will never be created on that hard disk. By using different checkbox settings, you can have Disk Druid place partitions as you see fit, or let Disk Druid decide where partitions should go. Size (Megs): Enter the size (in megabytes) of the partition. Note, this field starts with a "1" (one); unless changed, only a 1 MB partition will be created. Additional Size Options: Choose whether to keep this partition at a fixed size, to allow it to "grow" (fill up the available hard drive space) to a certain point, or to allow it to grow to fill any remaining hard drive space available. If you choose Fill all space up to (MB), you must give size constraints in the field to the right of this option. This allows you to keep a certain amount of space free on your hard drive for future use. · · · · · Force to be a primary partition: Select whether the partition you are creating should be one of the first four partitions on the hard drive. If unselected, the partition created will be a logical partition. See Section C. 1. 3, for more information. Chapter 3. Installing Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 37 · Check for bad blocks: Checking for bad blocks can help prevent data loss by locating the bad blocks on a drive and making a list of them to prevent using them in the future. If you wish to check for bad blocks while formatting each file system, please make sure to select this option. [. . . ] Information on creating disk partitions compatible with other operating systems is available in several HOWTOs and MiniHOWTOs, available on the Red Hat Linux Advanced Server Documentation CD in the HOWTO and HOWTO/mini directories. In particular, the Mini-HOWTOs whose names start with Linux+ are quite helpful. C. 1. 7. Disk Partitions and Mount Points One area that many people new to Linux find confusing is the matter of how partitions are used and accessed by the Linux operating system. In DOS/Windows, it is relatively simple: Each partition gets a "drive letter. " You then use the correct drive letter to refer to files and directories on its corresponding partition. [. . . ]