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Section 3.10:Partitioning Your System 37
• Type: This field shows the partition’s type (for example, ext2, ext3, or vfat).
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Mount Point: A mount point is the location within the directory hierarchy at which a volume
exists; the volume is "mounted" at this location. This field indicates where the partition will be
mounted. If a partition exists, but is not set, then you need to define its mount point. Double-click
on the partition or click the
Edit button.
3.10.4 Recommended Partitioning Scheme
Unless you have a reason for doing otherwise, we recommend that you create the following partitions:
•A/boot/efi partition (100 MB minimum) — the partition mounted on /boot/efi contains
all the installed kernels, the initrd images, and ELILO configuration files.
WARNING
You must create a /boot/efi partition of type vfat and at least 100
MB in size as the first primary partition.
• A swap partition (512 MB minimum) — swap partitions are used to support virtual memory. In
other words, data is written to a swap partition when there is not enough RAM to store the data
your system is processing. If you are unsure about what size swap partition to create, make it twice
the amount of RAM on your machine. It must be of type swap.
•Aroot partition (900 MB-4.0 GB) — this is where "/" (the root directory) is located. In this
setup, all files (except those stored in /boot/efi) are on the root partition. It must be of type
ext3 or ext2.
3.10.5 Adding Partitions
To add a new partition, select the New button. A dialog box appears (see Figure 3–8, Creating a New
Partition).