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Continuing our example, it is also possible that one or more directories below /usr/ would be
mount points for other partitions. For instance, a partition (say, /dev/hda7) could be mounted on
/usr/local/, meaning that /usr/local/man/whatis would then reside on /dev/hda7 rather than /
dev/hda5.
1.8. How Many Partitions?
At this point in the process of preparing to install Red Hat Enterprise Linux, you must give some
consideration to the number and size of the partitions to be used by your new operating system.
The question of "how many partitions" continues to spark debate within the Linux community
and, without any end to the debate in sight, it is safe to say that there are probably as many par-
tition layouts as there are people debating the issue.
Keeping this in mind, we recommend that, unless you have a reason for doing otherwise, you
should at least create the following partitions: swap, /boot/ (or a /boot/efi/ partition for Itanium
systems), a /var/ partition for Itanium systems, and / (root).
For more information, refer to Section 18.4, “Recommended Partitioning Scheme”.
1.8. How Many Partitions?
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