Creating Partitions - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 4 System Administration Manual

Chapter 2. Kickstart Configurator
Select whether or not to clear the Master Boot Record (MBR). Choose to remove all existing partitions,
remove all existing Linux partitions, or preserve existing partitions.
To initialize the disk label to the default for the architecture of the system (for example, msdos for x86
and gpt for Itanium), select Initialize the disk label if you are installing on a brand new hard drive.

2.4.1. Creating Partitions

To create a partition, click the Add button. The Partition Options window shown in
"Creating Partitions"
appears. Choose the mount point, file system type, and partition size for the new
partition. Optionally, you can also choose from the following:
• In the Additional Size Options section, choose to make the partition a fixed size, up to a chosen
size, or fill the remaining space on the hard drive. If you selected swap as the file system type, you
can select to have the installation program create the swap partition with the recommended size
instead of specifying a size.
• Force the partition to be created as a primary partition.
• Create the partition on a specific hard drive. For example, to make the partition on the first IDE hard
disk (/dev/hda), specify hda as the drive. Do not include /dev in the drive name.
• Use an existing partition. For example, to make the partition on the first partition on the first IDE hard
disk (/dev/hda1), specify hda1 as the partition. Do not include /dev in the partition name.
• Format the partition as the chosen file system type.
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