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Figure 7.4 The YaST Partitioner
TIP: IBM System z: Device Names
IBM System z recognize only DASD and SCSI hard disks. IDE hard disks are not
supported. This is why these devices appear in the partition table as dasda or
sda for the first recognized device.
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 (or /dev/dasda). Partitions are listed
as parts of these devices, such as /dev/hda1 or /dev/sda1 (or /dev/dasda1,
respectively). 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
Server, 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 Server
and retain the third and first for other operating systems.
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