Quick Start Guide
Figure 1.6 Suggested Partitioning
1.10.1 Partitioning a Specic Disk
If your machine contains more than one hard disk and you want to restrict the parti-
tioning proposal to just one disk, choose Create Partition Setup and then select a
specic disk from the list. If the chosen hard disk does not contain any partitions yet,
the whole hard disk will be used for the proposal. Otherwise, you can choose which
existing partition(s) to utilize. To add a separate partition for you personal data check
Propose a Separate Home Partition. Instead of the default partition-based proposal,
it is possible to Create an LVM Based Proposal. Choose two times Next to proceed
to the next step.
1.10.1.1 Resizing a Windows Partition
If the selected hard disk only contains a Windows FAT or NTFS partition, YaST oers
to delete or shrink this partition. If you select Delete Windows Completely, the Win-
dows partition is marked for deletion and the space is used for the installation of
openSUSE.
WARNING: Deleting Windows
If you delete Windows, all data will be lost beyond recovery as soon as the format-
ting starts.
To Shrink the Windows Partition, you need to interrupt the installation and boot
Windows to prepare the partition before shrinking it. For all Windows le systems,
proceed as follows:
1.
Deactivate a Virtual Memory le, if there is one.
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