We strongly recommend to use GPT partitioned disk devices. For grub2 to be able to boot from such a device on BIOS systems a small BIOS Boot partition (type: 0x107, 263) is required to hold the second se of the bootloader. 8 MB is sufficient for this purpose.
We recommend that you create a 2 GB swap partition next and format the remainder of the first disk with btrfs with default subvolume handling and mounted at /. On the second disk we recommend to create a single LVM volume group data with a single logical volume data formatted with xfs and mounted at /data. The recommended disk partitioning is summarized in the following table.
Table 4-1 Partition Layout for the AutoYaST Server
Disk |
Partition |
Type |
Volume Group |
Volume |
Mount Point |
File System |
Size [GB] |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
1 |
bios_grub |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
n/a |
0.008 |
1 |
2 |
Swap |
n/a |
n/a |
swap |
swap |
2 |
1 |
3 |
Linux |
n/a |
n/a |
/ |
btrfs |
17.992 |
2 |
1 |
LVM |
data |
data |
/data |
xfs |
50 |
Underneath /data the following directories need to be created to accommodate the CIF:
autoyast scripts, configuration files, control file and class files used by the solution
boot_cd_build working directory for Custom Boot ISO
install directory for the mount-points for the installation sources
isos directory for the installation sources and the AutoYaST boot ISO