Novell LINUX ENTERPRISE SERVER 10 SP2 - INSTALLATION AND ADMINISTRATION Installation Manual page 176

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:
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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 Section 7.1, "LVM Configuration" (page 115)
and Section 7.2, "Soft RAID Configuration" (page 123).
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 Chapter 25, File Systems in Linux
(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 Chapter 47, Encrypting
Partitions and Files (page 869).
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.