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Figure 8.6 The YaST Partitioner
All existing or suggested partitions on all connected hard disks are displayed in the list
of the YaST Expert Partitioner dialog. Entire hard disks are listed as devices without
numbers, such as /dev/hda or /dev/sda. Partitions are listed as parts of these de-
vices, such as /dev/hda1 or /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 partition appears in the Linux file system tree.
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®,
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 and retain the third
and first for other operating systems.
Partition Types
Every hard disk has a partition table with space for four entries. An entry in the partition
table can correspond to a primary partition or an extended partition. Only one extended
partition entry is allowed, however.
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