Configuring the hardware and installing an operating system
 
 
Mount Point
 
Size (MB)
 
File System Type  Partition Label
 
Recovery
  500 
NTFS
 
EFI system partition
  100  FAT32 
Microsoft reserved 
partition
 
16 
NTFS
 
Basic data partition
 
Rest of HDD
 
NTFS
 
While users can only make change on the 
Basic data partition
, the rest of the partitions are also crucial for 
maintenance 
and should not be changed.
 
• 
For SUSE system:
 
Mount Point
 
Size (MiB)
 
File System Type
 
Partition Label
 
Swap  2000  swap 
/boot/efi 
150 
vfat 
/ 
40000 
btrfs 
/home 
Rest of HDD
  Xfs 
 
For SUSE system,/boot/efi partition does not occur when the boot mode is in legacy mode. While the user can only 
make change on /home partition, the rest of the partitions are crucial for maintenance and should not be changed.
 
 
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For Red Hat Enterprise Linux /ClearOS system:
 
 
Mount Point
 
Size (MiB)
 
File System Type
 
Partition Label
 
/boot  1000  Xfs 
/boot/efi  200  efi 
swap 
1000 
swap 
/ 
10000 
xfs 
/home 
Rest of HDD
  xfs 
Boot partition should be biosboot when the boot mode is in legacy mode. Note that biosboot is not listed here since 
it is automatically generated by IP. While the user can only make change on /home partition, the rest partitions are 
crucial for maintenance and should not be changed.