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Figure 12.1 The YaST Partitioner
All existing or suggested partitions on all connected hard disks are displayed in the list
of Available Storage in the YaST Expert Partitioner dialog. Entire hard disks are listed
as devices without numbers, such as /dev/sda. Partitions are listed as parts of these
devices, such as /dev/sda1. The size, type, file system, and mount point of the hard
disks and their partitions are also displayed. The mount point describes where the par-
tition appears in the Linux file system tree.
Several functional views are available on the lefthand System View. Use these views
to gather information about existing storage configurations, or to configure functions
like RAID, Volume Management, Crypt Files, or NFS.
If you run the expert dialog during installation, any free hard disk space is also listed
and automatically selected. To provide more disk space to SUSE® Linux Enterprise
Desktop, free the needed space starting from the bottom toward the top of the list
(starting from the last partition of a hard disk toward the first). For example, if you have
three partitions, you cannot use the second exclusively for SUSE Linux Enterprise
Desktop and retain the third and first for other operating systems.
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