4
Specify additional le system options if your setup requires them. This is necessary,
for example, if you need persistent device names. For details on the available options,
refer to Section 3.1.3, “Editing a Partition” (page 76).
5
Click Finish to apply your partitioning setup and leave the partitioning module.
If you created the partition during installation, you are returned to the installation
overview screen.
3.1.3 Editing a Partition
When you create a new partition or modify an existing partition, you can set various
parameters. For new partitions, the default parameters set by YaST are usually sufcient
and do not require any modication. To edit your partition setup manually, proceed as
follows:
1
Select the partition.
2
Click Edit to edit the partition and set the parameters:
File System ID
Even if you do not want to format the partition at this stage, assign it a le system
ID to ensure that the partition is registered correctly. Possible values include
Linux, Linux swap, Linux LVM, and Linux RAID.
File System
To change the partition le system, click Format Partition and select le system
type in the File System list.
openSUSE supports several types of lesystems. BtrFS is the Linux lesystem
of choice because of its advanced features. It supports copy-on-write functional-
ity, creating snapshots, multi-device spanning, subvolumes, and other useful
techniques. ReiserFS, JFS, XFS, and Ext3 are journaling le systems. These
le systems are able to restore the system very quickly after a system crash,
utilizing write processes logged during the operation. Ext2 is not a journaling
le system, but it is adequate for smaller partitions because it does not require
much disk space for management.
Swap is a special format that allows the partition to be used as a virtual memory.
Create a swap partition of at least 256 MB. However, if you use up your swap
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