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+<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?><section xmlns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" xmlns:ns5="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:ns4="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:ns3="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xmlns:ns2="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:ns="http://docbook.org/ns/docbook" version="5.0" xml:id="drakdisk">
+
+
+ <info>
+ <title xml:id="drakdisk-ti1">Manage disk partitions</title>
+
+ <subtitle>drakdisk or diskdrake</subtitle>
+ </info>
+
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata xml:id="drakdiskBackup-im1" revision="1" fileref="drakdiskBackup.png" align="center" format="PNG"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+
+ <warning>
+ <para>This tool<footnote>
+ <para>You can start this tool from the command line, by typing
+ <emphasis role="bold">drakdisk</emphasis> or <emphasis role="bold">diskdrake</emphasis> as root.</para>
+ </footnote> is very powerful, a tiny error or a cat jumping on your
+ keyboard can lead to losing all data on a partition or even to erasing the
+ entire hard disk. For that reason, you'll see the screen above on top of
+ the tool screen. Click on <emphasis>Exit</emphasis> if you're not sure you
+ want to continue.</para>
+ </warning>
+
+ <para>If you have more than one hard disk, you can switch to the hard disk
+ you want to work on by selecting the correct tab (sda, sdb, sdc etc).</para>
+
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata revision="1" align="center" xml:id="drakdisk-im1" fileref="drakdisk.png" format="PNG"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+
+ <para>You can choose from many actions to adjust your hard disk to your
+ preferences. Wiping an entire hard disk, splitting or merging partitions,
+ resizing them or changing the filesystem, formatting or viewing what is in a
+ partition: it is all possible. The <emphasis><guibutton>Clear
+ all</guibutton></emphasis> button at the bottom is to erase the complete
+ disk, the other buttons become visible on the right after you click on a
+ partition.</para>
+
+ <!-- 2015-07-06 Note added by Lebarhon -->
+
+ <note>
+ <para>If you have an UEFI system, you can see a small partition called
+ "EFI System Partition" and mounted on /boot/EFI. Never delete it, because
+ it contains all your different operating systems bootloaders.</para>
+ </note>
+
+ <para>If the selected partition is mounted, like in the example below, you
+ cannot choose to resize, format or delete it. To be able to do that the
+ partition must be unmounted first.</para>
+
+ <para>It is only possible to resize a partition on its right side</para>
+
+ <para>To change a partition type (change ext3 to ext4 for example) you have
+ to delete the partition and then re-create it with the new type. The button
+ <guibutton role="bold">Create</guibutton> appears when a disk empty part is
+ selected</para>
+
+ <para>You can choose a mount point that doesn't exist, it will be
+ created.</para>
+
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata xml:id="drakdiskMountedPartition-im1" revision="1" fileref="drakdiskMountedPartition.png" align="center" format="PNG"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+
+ <para>Selecting <emphasis><guibutton>Toggle to expert
+ mode</guibutton></emphasis> gives some extra available actions, like
+ labeling the partition, as can be seen in the screenshot below.</para>
+
+ <mediaobject>
+ <imageobject>
+ <imagedata revision="1" xml:id="drakdiskExpertUnmounted-im1" align="center" fileref="drakdiskExpertUnmounted.png" format="PNG"/>
+ </imageobject>
+ </mediaobject>
+</section> \ No newline at end of file