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Creating a Partition
Select ‘New’. If several hard disks are connected, a selection dialog appears
in which to select a hard disk for the new partition. Then, specify the par-
tition type (primary or extended). Create up to four primary partitions
or up to three primary partitions and one extended partition. Within the
extended partition, create several logical partitions (see Section 1.7.4 on
page 19).
Select the file system to use to format the partition and a mount point, if
necessary. YaST suggests a mount point for each partition created. Details
of the parameters are provided in the next section.
Select ‘OK’ to apply your changes. The new partition is then listed in the
partition table. If you click ‘Next’, the current values are adopted and you
are returned to the suggestion screen.
Partitioning Parameters
If you create a new partition or modify an existing partition, various pa-
rameters can be set in the partitioning tool. For new partitions, suitable pa-
rameters are set by YaST and usually do not require any modification. To
perform manual settings, proceed as follows:
1. Select the partition.
2. ‘Edit’ the partition and set the parameters:
File System ID Even if you do not want to format the partition at
this stage, assign it a file system ID to ensure that the partition
is registered correctly. Possible values include ‘Linux’, ‘Linux
swap’, ‘Linux LVM’, or ‘Linux RAID’. For details on LVM and
RAID, refer to Section 3.10 on page 138 and Section 3.11 on
page 145.
File System To format the partition immediately within the scope of
the installation, specify one of the following file systems for the
partition: ‘Swap’, ‘Ext2’, ‘Ext3’, ‘ReiserFS’, or ‘JFS’.
File System Options Set various parameters for the selected file sys-
tem here.
Encrypt File System If you activate the encryption, all data is writ-
ten to the hard disk in encrypted form.
fstab Options Here, specify various parameters for the administra-
tion file of the file systems (/etc/fstab).
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