Creating A Partition - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 08-05-2008 Installation Manual

number of logical partitions is 15 on SCSI, SATA, and Firewire disks and 63 on (E)IDE
disks. It does not matter which types of partitions are used for Linux. Primary and log-
ical partitions both work fine.
TIP: Hard Disks with a GPT Disk Label
For architectures using the GPT disk label, the number of primary partitions is
not restricted. Consequently, there are no logical partitions.

Creating a Partition

To create a partition from scratch, proceed as follows:
1 Select Create. If several hard disks are connected, a selection dialog appears in
which to select a hard disk for the new partition.
2 Specify the partition type (primary or extended). Create up to four primary parti-
tions or up to three primary partitions and one extended partition. Within the
extended partition, create several logical partitions (see
(page 156)).
3 Select the file system to use and a mount point. YaST suggests a mount point
for each partition created. Refer to
for details on the various file systems.
4 Specify additional file system options if your setup requires them. This is neces-
sary, for example, if you need persistent device names. For details on the available
options, refer to
5 Click OK > Apply to apply your partitioning setup and leave the partitioning
module.
If you created the partition during installation, you are returned to the installation
overview screen.
Chapter 25, File Systems in Linux
Section "Editing a Partition"
Section "Partition Types"
(page 158).
System Configuration with YaST
(page 469)
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