Users Guide

Reviewing Preconfiguration Options
This section describes packages and options that are installed or preconfigured by Dell.
Operating System Packages Pre-Installed By Dell
Dell has pre-installed on your system a set of operating system packages that provide the features desired by system
users, while enhancing the stability and security of your system.
Dell has placed the binary Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) modules for additional packages in the /usr/src/dell/RPMS
directory. The source RPM modules for those packages reside in the /usr/src/dell/SRPMS directory. The archived and
compressed source code for the RPM modules, if any, resides in the /usr/src/dell/SOURCES directory. These packages,
which may include additional drivers and software, are not located on the Red Hat installation media. These packages
are available at dell.com/support.
NOTE: If you require functionality not provided by the packages, install additional packages from the Red Hat
installation media shipped with your system.
Storage Partitions
Dell uses the partition scheme listed in the following table.
Table 2. Storage Partition Scheme
Mount Point Size (MB) Partition Type Volume Group
Utility Partition 32 FAT 32 N/A
/ 4096 Linux Logical Volume
Manager (LVM)
VolGroup00
/boot 200 Linux native N/A
Swap 2048 Linux swap VolGroup00
/usr 8192 Linux LVM VolGroup00
/tmp 4096 Linux LVM VolGroup00
/var 4096 Linux LVM VolGroup00
/home 4096 Linux LVM VolGroup00
NOTE: The size of the default LVM partitions such as (/usr, /tmp and so on) is based on a single 36 GB hard drive. If
you have a larger hard drive or multiple hard drives, use the various native LVM tools to resize the existing
partitions as well as to create new partitions, according to your requirements.
Table 3. Memory Swap Size
Memory Swap Space (GB)
4 or less 2
4–16 4
4 8
64–256 16
NOTE: The size of your swap must never be less than 32 MB. For physical RAM more than 2 GB, the size of your
swap must be equal to the amount of physical RAM above 2 GB.
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