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102 Appendix E:An Introduction to Disk Partitions

of filesystems (including many commonly used by other operating systems), making data interchange

between different filesystems easy.

Figure E–3 Disk Drive with a Different Filesystem

Of course, writing a filesystem to disk is only the beginning. The goal of this process is to actually

store and retrieve data. Let us take a look at our drive after some files have been written to it.

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Red Hat Linux 7.2 1
Contents 3
Introduction 7
Mail backupfiles mail reports 9
How to Use This Manual 10
We Need Feedback! 11
1 Steps to Get You Started 13
1.4.2 Server Installations 17
1.4.3 Custom Installations 18
1.4.4 Upgrading Your System 19
2.1 Installation Overview 21
2.2 The EFI Shell 21
2.2.1 EFI Device Names 22
at the prompt 23
Boot Loader Options 24
3 Installing Red Hat Linux 25
3.3 Language Selection 27
3.4 Keyboard Configuration 28
3.5 Mouse Configuration 29
3.6 Welcome to Red Hat Linux 31
3.7 Install Options 31
3.8 Disk Partitioning Setup 32
3.9 Automatic Partitioning 33
3.10 Partitioning Your System 34
3.10.2 Disk Druid’s Buttons 36
3.10.3 Partition Fields 36
3.10.5 Adding Partitions 37
Filesystem Types 39
3.11 Partitioning with fdisk 40
3.12 Network Configuration 42
3.13 Firewall Configuration 43
3.15 Time Zone Configuration 47
System Clock uses UTC 48
3.16 Account Configuration 49
3.18 Package Group Selection 53
Unselect all in group 56
3.19 X Configuration 57
3.20 Preparing to Install 58
3.21 Installing Packages 59
3.22 Boot Disk Creation 60
3.23 X Configuration 61
Figure 3–22 Monitor Selection 62
3.23.2 Custom Configuration 63
3.24 Installation Complete 64
Using a Startup Script 66
4.1 Things You Should Know 67
4.1.2 Video Configuration 68
Disk Druid 69
4.3.1 Displaying Online Help 72
4.6 Installing over a Network 74
4.6.1 Setting Up the Server 75
4.6.2 NFS Setup 75
4.6.3 FTP Setup 76
4.6.4 HTTP Setup 77
Figure 4–6 HTTP Setup Dialog 78
A.1 What it Means to Upgrade 79
A.2 Upgrading Your System 79
A.3 Upgrading Your Filesystem 80
A.4 Customizing Your Upgrade 81
A.5.1 Unresolved Dependencies 82
A.6 Upgrading Packages 83
A.7 Upgrade Complete 84
C Getting Technical Support 87
C.3 Scope of Red Hat Support 88
Red Hat Linux 93
Figure D–1 Mouse Not Detected 94
Sound submenu of the 98
E.1 Hard Disk Basic Concepts 99
Table E–1 Partition Types 105
Partitions 107
Compress existing data 112
Resize the existing partition 113
Create new partition(s) 114
E.1.5 Partition Naming Scheme 116
E.1.8 How Many Partitions? 118

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