During installation, systems such as SUSE and Fedora let you partition your hard disk using graphical
partitioning tools (YaST and Disk Druid, respectively). The following sections describe how to
use Disk Druid (during installation) or fdisk. See the section ???Tips for Creating Partitions??? for some
ideas for creating disk partitions.
Partitioning with Disk Druid During Installation
During installation, Fedora gives you the opportunity to change how your hard disk is partitioned
using a tool called Disk Druid (in fact, the name ???Disk Druid??? seems to be going away, but the partitioning
tool remains the same). The Disk Druid screen is divided into two sections. The top
shows general information about each hard disk. The bottom shows details of each partition.
Figure 7-1 shows an example of the Disk Druid window.
FIGURE 7-1
Partition your disk during Fedora installation from the disk setup window.
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For each of the hard disk partitions, you can see the following:
Device??”The device name is the name representing the hard disk partition in the /dev
directory. Each disk partition device begins with two letters: sd for IDE or SCSI disks, ed
for ESDI disks, or xd for XT disks.
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