Introduction
Leaseweb offers automated installation of virtual servers and dedicated servers. These automated installations offer two different partitioning schemes:
- Manual partitioning
- Default partitioning
The default partitioning scheme for the different operating systems are explained below.
Windows default partitioning
During a Windows installation, two partitions are created on the first available disk in the server.
| Flags | Filesystem | Mountpoint | Size |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bootable | NTFS | C:/ OSDisk | 100GB |
| none | NTFS | D:/ Data | All remaing space |
Warning
All drives will be repartitioned during a reinstallation. No original data will remain visible. Please ensure that you have proper backups.
If you would like to retain data on certain disks after a reinstallation, please contact Support.
Linux default partitioning
The automatic Linux installation will format the first drive on your system (default: sda). It will install the system using the following partitioning scheme:
| Flags | Filesystem | Mountpoint | Size | Note |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| none | bios_grub | none | 1MB | Created for EFI compatibility |
| bootable | ext2 | /boot | 1024MB | |
| none | swap | none | 4GB | |
| nodev, nosuid, noexec | ext4 | /tmp | 4GB | Extra mount options added for security reasons |
| none | ext4 | / | All remaining space |
Warning
All drives will be repartitioned during a reinstallation. No original data will remain visible. Please ensure that you have proper backups.
If you would like to retain data on certain disks after a reinstallation, please contact Support.
Information
When specifying custom partitioning for an installation, omitting any of the default partitions (/boot, swap, /tmp and root) can cause the installation to fail.
