Disk partition layout

[thombrad]

I wondered if anyone could tell me what the paritions in bold contain during a default ESXi install to disk contained and what their purpose was.

Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on *visorfs 269.7M 233.5M 36.2M 87% /* *vfat 4.0G 2.4M 4.0G 0% /vmfs/volumes/4c35f426-*70db70a2-93b9-00237dd8d610 *vfat 249.7M 4.0k 249.7M 0% /vmfs/volumes/bb6b4a78-*5940e894-62ee-53e39ebb43f1 *vfat 249.7M 75.2M 174.6M 30% /vmfs/volumes/65b15570-*56fd9bdd-4983-95a946c2df14 *vfat 285.9M 242.6M 43.3M 85% /vmfs/volumes/e00f98e1-*2bcc0c91-e7a2-3487611c1557 vmfs3 815.3G 684.0M 814.6G 0% /vmfs/volumes/4c35f427-123a5928-0e23-00237dd8d610 vmfs3 1.1T 566.0M 1.1T 0% /vmfs/volumes/4c3d9c03-26357e1e-4c98-002481803e67

Thanks.

[thombrad]

Stupid formatting! That should have been:

Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on

visorfs 269.7M 233.5M 36.2M 87% /

vfat 4.0G 2.4M 4.0G 0% /vmfs/volumes/4c35f426-70db70a2-93b9-00237dd8d610

vfat 249.7M 4.0k 249.7M 0% /vmfs/volumes/bb6b4a78-5940e894-62ee-53e39ebb43f1

vfat 249.7M 75.2M 174.6M 30% /vmfs/volumes/65b15570-56fd9bdd-4983-95a946c2df14

vfat 285.9M 242.6M 43.3M 85% /vmfs/volumes/e00f98e1-2bcc0c91-e7a2-3487611c1557

vmfs3 815.3G 684.0M 814.6G 0% /vmfs/volumes/4c35f427-123a5928-0e23-00237dd8d610

vmfs3 1.1T 566.0M 1.1T 0% /vmfs/volumes/4c3d9c03-26357e1e-4c98-002481803e67

[DSTAVERT]

visorfs is a RAM disk

There are two fat partitions for a "current" and a "previous" ESXi installation. And there is a partition for the VMware tools.

[thombrad]

Thanks.

Could you tell me which is which and what the fourth one ins for?

[DSTAVERT · Accepted solution]

Partition 4 boot

Partition 5 is the ESXi image

Partition 6 is the alternate ESXi image

Partition 7 is for core dumps

Partition 8 contains tools, drivers, vSphere Client installer

[thombrad]

Thank you very much.

[DSTAVERT]

Very welcome.