Automatic Partitioning - Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5 - DEPLOYMENT Deployment Manual

9.3. Automatic Partitioning

On the Disk Partitioning Setup screen, select Automatically partition.
For Red Hat Enterprise Linux, LVM is the default method for disk partitioning. If you do not wish to
have LVM implemented, or if you require RAID partitioning, manual disk partitioning through Disk
Druid is required.
The following properties make up the automatically created configuration:
• The /boot/ partition resides on its own non-LVM partition. In the following example, it is the first
partition on the first drive (/dev/sda1). Bootable partitions cannot reside on LVM logical volumes.
• A single LVM volume group (VolGroup00) is created, which spans all selected drives and all
remaining space available. In the following example, the remainder of the first drive (/dev/sda2),
and the entire second drive (/dev/sdb1) are allocated to the volume group.
• Two LVM logical volumes (LogVol00 and LogVol01) are created from the newly created spanned
volume group. In the following example, the recommended swap space is automatically calculated
and assigned to LogVol01, and the remainder is allocated to the root file system, LogVol00.
Figure 9.3. Automatic LVM Configuration With Two SCSI Drives
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