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authorAnne Nicolas <ennael@mageia.org>2012-04-05 12:01:37 +0000
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<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
- <title>Choose Partitions to Be Formatted</title>
+ <title>Formatting</title>
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- <link rel="next" href="partition_with_diskdrake.html" title="Format Disks with DiskDrake"><style xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/transitional" type="text/css">
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- <div lang="" class="section" title="Choose Partitions to Be Formatted">
+ <div lang="" class="section" title="Formatting">
<div class="titlepage">
<div>
<div>
- <h2 class="title"><a name="drakxid-formatPartitions"></a>Choose Partitions to Be Formatted
+ <h2 class="title"><a name="formatPartitions"></a>Formatting
</h2>
</div>
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-
-
- <div class="note" title="Note" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
- <table border="0" summary="Note">
+ <p><a name="formatPartitions-pa1"></a>Here you can choose which partition(s) you wish to format. Any data on partitions not marked for formatting will be saved.
+ </p>
+
+
+ <p><a name="formatPartitions-pa2"></a>Usually at least the partitions DrakX selected, need to be formatted
+ </p>
+
+
+ <p><a name="formatPartitions-pa3"></a>Click on <span class="guibutton">Advanced</span> to choose partitions you want to check for so called <span class="emphasis"><em>bad blocks</em></span></p>
+
+
+ <div class="tip" title="Tip" style="margin-left: 0.5in; margin-right: 0.5in;">
+ <table border="0" summary="Tip">
<tr>
- <td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"><img alt="[Note]" src="./note.png"></td>
- <th align="left">Note</th>
+ <td rowspan="2" align="center" valign="top" width="25"><img alt="[Tip]" src="./tip.png"></td>
+ <th align="left">Tip</th>
</tr>
<tr>
<td align="left" valign="top">
-
- <p><a name="BIdNEW-drakxid-formatPartitions-pa8"></a>This
- step is available only if you chose to reuse existing
- <span class="application">Linux</span> partitions.
+ <p><a name="formatPartitions-pa4"></a>If you're not sure you have made the right choice, you can click on <span class="guibutton">Previous</span>, again on <span class="guibutton">Previous</span> and then on <span class="guibutton">Custom</span> to get back to the main screen. In that screen you can choose to view what is in your partitions.
</p>
-
</td>
</tr>
</table>
</div>
-
-
-
- <p><a name="BId-drakxid-formatPartitions-pa2"></a><a class="indexterm" name="BId-drakxid-formatPartitions-it1"></a>If
- you chose to reuse some legacy <span class="application">GNU/Linux</span> partitions, you may wish
- to reformat some of them and erase any data they contain. To do so,
- please select those partitions as well.
- </p>
-
- <p><a name="BId-drakxid-formatPartitions-pa3"></a>Please note that it's
- not necessary to reformat all <a class="indexterm" name="BId-drakxid-formatPartitions-it2"></a>pre-existing partitions. You must reformat the
- partitions containing the operating system (such as
- <code class="literal">/</code>, <code class="literal">/usr</code> or
- <code class="literal">/var</code>) but not the partitions containing data you
- wish to keep (typically <code class="literal">/home</code>).
- </p>
-
-
- <p><a name="BId-drakxid-formatPartitions-pa4"></a>Please be
- careful when selecting partitions. After the formatting is
- completed, <span class="emphasis"><em>all data on the selected partitions will be
- deleted</em></span> and you won't be able to recover it.
+ <p><a name="formatPartitions-pa5"></a>When you are confident about the selection, click on <span class="guibutton">Next</span> to continue.
</p>
-
- <p><a name="BId-drakxid-formatPartitions-pa5"></a>Click on
- <span class="guibutton">Next</span> when you're ready to format the
- partitions.
- </p>
- <p><a name="BId-drakxid-formatPartitions-pa6"></a>Click on
- <span class="guibutton">Previous</span> if you want to choose other
- partitions for your new <span class="application">Mageia</span> operating system
- installation.
- </p>
-
-
- <p><a name="BId-drakxid-formatPartitions-pa7"></a>Click on
- <span class="guibutton">Advanced</span> if you wish to select partitions
- which will be checked for <a class="indexterm" name="BId-drakxid-formatPartitions-it3"></a>bad blocks on the disk.
- </p>
-
</div>
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</html>