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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">
  <!--
 lebarhon 2012-08-30  Added some comments. Imho, the option button needs explanations -->

  <!--marja 2012-09-02 changed title to visible title for this tool in MCC -->

  <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>

  <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
  labelling 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>