[Bio-Linux] Fresh install - partitioning?

[Tim Booth]

Hi Vikram,

In short, the default option will give you one big ext4 partition plus a
swap partition.  This is not necessarily a bad thing nowadays, even on a
server, but if you want to use LVM or RAID or if you want a specific
partitioning layout then the manual partitioner is pretty
straightforward to use.

Cheers,

TIM

On Tue, 2014-10-14 at 15:10 +0100, Vikram Chhatre wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> 
> New Bio-Linux user here.  We are getting ready to install v.8 on a
> Dell PowerEdge server and wondering if we need to manually create
> root, home, boot and swap partitions.  If we go with the default
> option, what partitions are created?  
> 
> 
> We would appreciate any feedback on this matter.
> 
> 
> Thanks
> Vikram

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