Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX AS 2.1 Installation Manual page 25

Section 1.5:Which Installation Class is Best For You?
The partitions represented below were created on a system with 9 GB of hard
drive space and 512 MB of RAM. Depending on the amount of hard drive
space and memory you have available, these values may differ slightly.
• The size of the swap partition is determined by the amount of RAM in your system and the amount
of space available on your hard drive. If you have 128 MB of RAM, then the swap partition created
can be 128 MB – 256 MB (twice your RAM), depending on how much disk space is available.
For this example, a 1020 MB swap partition (mounted as <swap>) is created.
• A 47 MB partition (mounted as /boot) in which the Linux kernel and related files reside.
• A 2609 MB root partition (mounted as /) in which all other files are stored (the exact size of this
partition is dependent on your available disk space).
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