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Dell PowerEdge Systems Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 Installation Guide

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Storage partitions

The following tables list the partition schemes for a preinstalled RHEL 9 operating system.

Table 1. Preinstalled Red Hat Enterprise Linux partitions and mount points for legacy BIOSThe following tables list the partition schemes and mount points for RHEL 9 legacy BIOS.
Mount Point Size (MB) Partition Type
Swap Recommended size from Linux Linux swap
/boot 500 VFAT
/home 50% of the remaining size XFS
/ 50% of the remaining size XFS
Table 2. Preinstalled Red Hat Enterprise Linux partitions and mount points for UEFIThe following tables list the partition schemes and mount points for RHEL 9 on UEFI.
Mount Point Size (MB) Partition Type
Swap Recommended size from Linux Linux swap
/boot/efi 500 VFAT
/home 50% of the remaining size XFS
/ 50% of the remaining size XFS
NOTE For the recommended swap size, see Supported device types.

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