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<h2 class="title"><a name="diskdrake"></a>Managing your Hard Drive
Partitions with DiskDrake
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<p><a name="BId-diskdrake-pa1"></a> <a class="indexterm" name="BIdNEW-diskdrake-it5"></a> <a class="indexterm" name="BId-diskdrake-it1"></a> Partitions are initially set up during the installation
process. <span class="application">DiskDrake</span> allows you, to some extent, to
resize your partitions, move them, etc. <span class="application">DiskDrake</span>
can also deal with <acronym class="acronym">RAID</acronym> devices and supports
<acronym class="acronym">LVM</acronym> but we will not discuss these advanced uses
here.
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<p><a name="BId-diskdrake-pa2"></a><span class="application">DiskDrake</span> is very
powerful and can therefore be a dangerous tool. Misuse could very easily
lead to data loss on your hard drive. Because of this potential loss of
data, you are strongly advised to take some protective measures before
using <span class="application">DiskDrake</span>:
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<p><a name="BId-diskdrake-pa3"></a>Back up your data.
Transfer it to another computer, or the removable medium of your
choice.
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<p><a name="BId-diskdrake-pa4"></a><a class="indexterm" name="BId-diskdrake-it2"></a> Save your current partition table (the table describing
how your disks are organized) to a floppy disk (see <a class="xref" href="diskdrake.html#diskdrake-actions" title="DiskDrake's Action Buttons">the section called “DiskDrake's Action Buttons”</a>).
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<p><a name="BId-diskdrake-pa5"></a><a class="indexterm" name="BId-diskdrake-it3"></a> <span class="application">DiskDrake</span> enables you to manage
partitions on each physical hard drive on your machine, and also on
removable drives: <acronym class="acronym">USB</acronym> hard disks, keys, memory cards,
etc. You can see as many tabs as hard drives your system has. Each tab is
named after the <span class="application">Linux</span> name for that drive (for
example: <span class="guilabel">sda</span> for the first hard disk).
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<p><a name="BId-diskdrake-pa6"></a>The window (see <a class="xref" href="diskdrake.html#diskdrake-main" title="Figure 2. DiskDrake's Main Window">Figure 2, “DiskDrake's Main Window”</a>) is divided into four zones:
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<p><a name="BId-diskdrake-pa7"></a>Top. The structure of
your hard drive. When you launch <span class="application">DiskDrake</span>
it will display the current structure of the drive. The display is
updated as you make changes.
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<p><a name="BId-diskdrake-pa8"></a>Right. A menu relevant
to the partition currently selected in the above diagram.
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<p><a name="BId-diskdrake-pa9"></a>Left. A description of
the selected partition.
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<p><a name="BId-diskdrake-pa10"></a>Bottom. Buttons for
executing general actions. See <a class="xref" href="diskdrake.html#diskdrake-actions" title="DiskDrake's Action Buttons">the section called “DiskDrake's Action Buttons”</a>.
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<p><a name="BId-diskdrake-pa19"></a>We will now review the actions available
through the buttons at the bottom of the window<span><a name="BIdNEW-diskdrake-ph1"></a>, and then describe a practical use
case</span>.
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<h3 class="title"><a name="diskdrake-actions"></a>DiskDrake's Action Buttons
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<dt><span class="term"><a name="BId-diskdrake-te1"></a><span class="guibutton">Clear
all</span></span></dt>
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<p><a name="BId-diskdrake-pa20"></a>Clicking on this button will clear
all partitions on the current hard drive.
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<dt><span class="term"><a name="BId-diskdrake-te2"></a><span class="guibutton">More</span></span></dt>
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<p><a name="BId-diskdrake-pa21"></a>Displays a dialog
allowing you to reload the partition table, use it to restore the
partition table to the state it was in when you started custom
partitioning.
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<dt><span class="term"><a name="BId-diskdrake-te8"></a><span class="guibutton">Toggle to expert
mode</span></span></dt>
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<p><a name="BId-diskdrake-pa27"></a>This button allows you to access
the expert mode functions (which are even <span class="emphasis"><em>more</em></span>
dangerous if you are not sure what you are doing). Reserved for
experts.
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<dt><span class="term"><a name="BId-diskdrake-te6"></a><span class="guibutton">Help</span></span></dt>
<dd>
<p><a name="BId-diskdrake-pa25"></a>Displays
documentation in a browser window.
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<dt><span class="term"><a name="BId-diskdrake-te9"></a><span class="guibutton">Done</span></span></dt>
<dd>
<p><a name="BId-diskdrake-pa28"></a>Saves your changes and exits
<span class="application">DiskDrake</span>.
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<p>You may not remember the content of existing
partitions. Click on <span class="guibutton">View</span>, you will be able
to browse content of all your partitions
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