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<info>
<title xml:id="drakdisk-ti1">Manage disk partitions</title>
<subtitle>drakdisk or diskdrake</subtitle>
</info>
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<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>
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<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>
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</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>
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