Creating A Partition - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 04-08-2006 Installation Manual

Creating a Partition

Select Create. If several hard disks are connected, a selection dialog appears in which
to select a hard disk for the new partition. Then specify the partition 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 "Partition Types"
Select the file system to use 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. During installation you are then returned
to the suggestion screen.
Partitioning Parameters
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 make manual settings, 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, Linux EVMS, and Linux RAID. For
LVM and RAID details, refer to
and Section 6.2, "Soft RAID Configuration"
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. Refer to
details on the various file systems.
File System Options
Set various parameters for the selected file system here.
(page 44)).
Section 6.1, "LVM Configuration"
Chapter 26, File Systems in Linux
(page 123)
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