Creating A Partition - Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION 11-05-2007 Installation Manual

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
2 Specify the partition type (primary or extended). Create up to four primary parti-
3 Select the file system to use and a mount point. YaST suggests a mount point
4 Specify additional file system options if your setup require them. For details of
5 Click OK > Apply to apply your partitioning setup and leave the partitioning
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:
152 Installation and Administration
which to select a hard disk for the new partition.
tions or up to three primary partitions and one extended partition. Within the
extended partition, create several logical partitions (see
(page 151)).
for each partition created. Refer to
for details on the various file systems.
the options available, refer to
module.
If you created the partition during installation, you are returned to the installation
overview screen.
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
Chapter 25, File Systems in Linux
Section "Editing a Partition"
Section "Partition Types"
(page 469)
(page 152).