Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE DESKTOP 10 SP2 - DEPLOYMENT GUIDE 08-05-2008 Deployment Manual page 165

Editing a Partition
When you create a new partition or modify an existing partition, set various parameters.
For new partitions, suitable parameters are set by YaST and usually do not require any
modification. To edit your partition setup manually, proceed as follows:
1 Select the partition.
2 Click Edit to 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, and Linux RAID. For LVM and
RAID details, refer to
Section 7.2, "Soft RAID Configuration"
File System
Change the file system or format the partition here. Changing the file system
or reformatting partitions irreversibly deletes all data from the partition . For
details on the various file systems, refer to
(page 471).
File System Options
Set various parameters for the selected file system here. The defaults are
acceptable for most situations.
Encrypt File System
If you activate the encryption, all data is written to the hard disk in encrypted
form. This increases the security of sensitive data, but slightly reduces the
system speed, because the encryption takes some time. More information
about the encryption of file systems is provided in
Partitions and Files
Fstab Options
Specify various parameters contained in the global file system administration
file (/etc/fstab). The default settings should suffice for most setups.
You can, for example, change the file system identification from the device
name to a volume label. In the volume label, use all characters except / and
space.
Section 7.1, "LVM Configuration"
(page 113).
(page 757).
(page 107) and
Chapter 22, File Systems in Linux
Chapter 42, Encrypting
System Configuration with YaST 149