Operation Manual
Figure 3.1:
The YaST Partitioner
All existing or suggested partitions on all connected hard disks are displayed in the list
of Available Storage in the YaST Expert Partitioner dialog. Entire hard disks are listed
as devices without numbers, such as /dev/sda. Partitions are listed as parts of these
devices, such as /dev/sda1. The size, type, encryption status, le system, and mount
point of the hard disks and their partitions are also displayed. The mount point describes
where the partition appears in the Linux le system tree.
Several functional views are available on the lefthand System View. Use these views
to gather information about existing storage congurations, or to congure functions
like RAID, Volume Management, Crypt Files, or view lesystems with addi-
tional features, such as BTRFS, NFS, or TMPFS.
If you run the expert dialog during installation, any free hard disk space is also listed
and automatically selected. To provide more disk space to openSUSE®, free the needed
space starting from the bottom toward the top of the list (starting from the last partition
of a hard disk toward the rst). For example, if you have three partitions, you cannot
use the second exclusively for openSUSE and retain the third and rst for other operating
systems.
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