[gnome-user-docs] modified: gnome-help/C/disk-partitions.page

[Shaun McCance <shaunm src gnome org>]

commit 08a8f7197ec60ac347fcbf4087b15fcd29c6ea4c
Author: Kelly Sinnott <ksinnott5ht gmail com>
Date:   Tue Apr 5 00:11:31 2011 -0400

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-<title>What are volumes and partitions?</title>
+<title>Manage Volumes and Partitions</title>
 
-<p>A number of technical terms are used to describe ways of dividing-up the available space on hard drives and other storage disks. This topic explains what they mean.</p>
+<p>The word <em>volume</em> is used to describe areas of storage that your computer has made available for your use. The computer makes this storage accesible via your file system in a process referred to as <em>mounting</em>. Mounted volumes may be hard drives, USB drives, DVD-RWs, SD cards, and other media. 
+
+Often, a mounted volume is called a <em>partition</em>, though they are not identical. "Partition" refers to one or more <em>physical</em> areas of storage on a single drive. One a partition has been mounted, it can be called a volume. You can think of volumes as the labeled, accessible â??storefrontsâ?? to the functional â??back roomsâ?? of partitions and drives.</p>
+
+<section id="disk-utility">
+<p>To view and manage volumes and partitions using <gui>Disk Utility</gui>:
+
+<steps>
+ <item>
+  <p>Go to <gui>Activities</gui> in the top left corner of the screen and start the <app>Disk Utility</app>.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+  <p> In the pane marked <gui>Storage Devices</gui>, you will find hard disks, CD/DVD drives, and other physical devices. Click on a device of interest.</p>
+ </item>
+ <item>
+ <p> In the right pane, the area labeled <gui>Volumes</gui> provides a visual breakdown of the volumes and partitions present on the selected device. It also contains a variety of tools used to manage these volumes. Be careful, it is possible to completely erase the data on your disk with these utilities.</p>
+</item>
+</steps>
+</section>
+
+<section id="gparted">
+<p>To view and manage volumes and partitions using <app>Gparted Partition Editor</app>:
+
+<steps>
+ <item>
+   <p>Go to <gui>Activities</gui> in the top left corner of the screen and start the <app>Gparted Partition Editor</app>.
+   </p>
+  </item>
+  <item>
+   <p> Enter your account password to access the utility. Once again, make sure you know what you are doing before you change anything or use any tools in <app>Gparted</app>; you could lose all your data!</p>
+   </item>
+</steps>
+
+<p> The <app>Gparted</app> window has a visual representation of the volume at the top, and a list at the bottom with various information about each partition. You may notice that most of the options in GParted are currently unavailable; this is because in order to edit, resize, delete, or otherwise change a partition, it must be unmounted.</p>
+
+</section>
+
+<p>Your computer most likely has at least one <em>primary</em> partition and a single <em>swap</em> partition. The swap partition is used by your operating system for memory management, and is rarely mounted.  The primary partition contains your operating system, applications, settings, and personal files. These files can be distributed among multiple partitions for security or convenience.</p>
+
+<p>One primary partition must contain information that your computer uses to start up, or <em>boot</em>. For this reason it is sometimes called a boot partition, or boot volume. To determine if a volume is bootable, look for <gui>Partition Flags</gui> in <gui>Disk Utility</gui>, or at the <gui>Flags</gui> column in GParted. External media such as USB drives and CDs may also contain a bootable volume.</p>
 
-<p>A <em>volume</em></p>
 
-<p>Partitions are sometimes referred to as <em>volumes</em>.</p>
 
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