Reference Guide

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NOTE: All the partitions are mirrored across the hard drives in the computer.
NOTE: Grand Unified Bootloader (GRUB) is written to the Master Boot Record of
all the hard drives to allow a system boot from any disk in case of a drive failure.
Dynamic Kernel Module Support Framework for Device Drivers
Dell uses the Dynamic Kernel Module Support (DKMS) framework for all
add-on device drivers that are not native to the kernel. This framework allows
the kernel modules to be dynamically built for each kernel on your computer
and provides a mechanism for the driver version control.
To see which add-on drivers are installed on your computer, type dkms
status at the command prompt. For more information on DKMS,
view the DKMS man page on your computer.
Table 2. Software RAID 0 Configured
Mount Point Partition Size Default Partition Type RAID Device
/boot 200 MB ext3
swap Automatically determined by
the Red Hat installer
swap
/ Grow to full* ext3 /dev/md0
*
The remaining space on the primary disk and all the space on the remaining disks in the com-
puter are combined into a RAID 0 device.
Table 3. Software RAID 1 configured
Mount Point Partition Size Default Partition Type RAID Device
/boot 200 MB ext3 /dev/md0
/ Grow to full ext3 /dev/md1
swap 2 GB swap /dev/md2
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