Formatting Partitions - Red Hat LINUX 7.1 - ISERIES Manual

Section 3.10:Formatting Partitions
Unlike and Intel system, an iSeries Linux partition should be booted from a
PReP Boot partition. The PReP Boot partition must be created and be made
active with the a option. Failure to do so may leave the resulting system
unbootable, even if the installation completes successfully.
After you have partitioned your drive(s), click
mount points to the partitions you just created with fdisk.
You will not be able to add new partitions using Disk Druid, but you will be able to edit mount points
for the partitions you have already created.
For each partition you created with fdisk, click on the
for that partition from the pulldown menu, and click on

3.10 Formatting Partitions

After you have created partitions, you will need to format them. Choose the partitions that you would
like to format. All newly created partitions should be formatted. In addition, any existing partitions
that contain data you no longer need should be formatted. However, partitions such as /home or
/usr/local must not be formatted if they contain data you wish to keep (see Figure 3–10, Choosing
Partitions to Format).
CAUTION
. Then you will need to use Disk Druid to assign
Next
button, choose the appropriate mount point
Edit
.
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