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Partition Fields
partitions present on them. It should only be used if you have experience using LVM. To read
more about LVM, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Deployment Guide. Note, LVM is only
available in the graphical installation program.
To create an LVM logical volume, you must first create partitions of type physical volume
(LVM). Once you have created one or more physical volume (LVM) partitions, select LVM to
create an LVM logical volume.
18.3. Partition Fields
Above the partition hierarchy are labels which present information about the partitions you are
creating. The labels are defined as follows:
• Device: This field displays the partition's device name.
• Mount Point/RAID/Volume: 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 is 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.
• Type: This field shows the partition's file system type (for example, ext2, ext3, or vfat).
• Format: This field shows if the partition being created will be formatted.
• Size (MB): This field shows the partition's size (in MB).
• Start: This field shows the cylinder on your hard drive where the partition begins.
• End: This field shows the cylinder on your hard drive where the partition ends.
Hide RAID device/LVM Volume Group members: Select this option if you do not want to view
any RAID device or LVM Volume Group members that have been created.
18.4. Recommended Partitioning Scheme
18.4.1. Itanium systems
Unless you have a reason for doing otherwise, we recommend that you create the following
partitions for Itanium systems:
• 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.
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