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by crsukumar

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I wish to know how to manage Harddisk to install Linux Re Hat 7.1 through Disk druid and Fdisk(advance user), I can Insatll throguh automaic disk partitioning, but when I try to go through Disk durid or Fdisk9both manual mode of disk partitionong inLinux redhat 7.1 , I could not carry out the fuction, it is due to lack of understanding of this procedure. I will someone able to explain me the details hwo to go through ?I do not want to get any book reference, but wish to get it explained please.many many thanks.

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by paulo.sedrez

With Disk Druid, you have to create the partitions, assign its filesystem types and mount points. You are encouraged to create a small (~30M) /boot, a swap, and /, /usr, /var, /tmp, /home, the size of each one according to the use you want for you machine.

With fdisk, you will have to create each partition and change its type (82 for linux swap, 83 for linux native, others...). Remember to create an extended partition after having 3 primary partitions, so you can create more. Exit with "w" to write the partition table to the disk. After you are done, you will be sent to the disk druid again, to assing mounting points to each partition, and to indicate which ones need to be formatted.

fdisk is more crude and does not avoid DiskDruid, but it is the one way to garantee the position of each partition on the disk. Sometimes this is needed; when it is not, use DiskDruid.

--Sedrez

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