Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX AS 2.1 Installation Manual page 47

Section 3.12:Partitioning Your System
3.12.1 Graphical Display of Hard Drive(s)
Disk Druid offers a graphical representation of your hard drive(s).
Using your mouse, click once to highlight a particular field in the graphical display. Double-click to
edit an existing partition or to create a partition out of existing free space.
Above the display, you will see the
disk's geometry and consists of three numbers representing the number of cylinders, heads, and sectors
as reported by the hard disk), and the
3.12.2 Disk Druid's Buttons
These buttons control Disk Druid's actions. They are used to change the attributes of a partition (for
example the filesystem type and mount point) and also to create RAID devices. Buttons on this screen
are also used to accept the changes you have made, or to exit Disk Druid. For further explanation,
take a look at each button in order:
• : Used to request a new partition. When selected, a dialog box appears containing fields (such
New
as mount point and size) that must be filled in.
• : Used to modify attributes of the partition currently selected in the
Edit
lecting opens a dialog box. Some or all of the fields can be edited, depending on whether the
Edit
partition information has already been written to disk.
You can also edit free space as represented in the graphical display to create a new partition within
that space. Either highlight the free space and then select the
free space to edit it.
• : Used to remove the partition currently highlighted in the
Delete
You will be asked to confirm the deletion of any partition.
• : Used to restore Disk Druid to its original state. All changes made will be lost if you
Reset
the partitions.
• :
Make RAID Make RAID
all disk partitions. It should only be used if you have experience using RAID. To read more about
RAID, please refer to RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) in the Official Red Hat Linux
Customization Guide.
To make a RAID device, you must first create software RAID partitions. Once you have created
two or more software RAID partitions, select
a RAID device.
name (such as /dev/hda), the
drive
model of the hard drive as detected by the installation program.
can be used if you want to provide software RAID redundancy to any or
Make RAID
(which shows the hard
geom
Partitions
button, or double-click on the
Edit
Current Disk Partitions
to join the software RAID partitions into
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Reset