device

The device you want to configure in this <drive> section. You can use persistent device names via id, like /dev/disk/by-id/ata-WDC_WD3200AAKS-75L9A0_WD-WMAV27368122 or by-path,like /dev/disk/by-path/pci-0001:00:03.0-scsi-0:0:0:0.

<device>/dev/hda</device>

Optional. If left out, AutoYaST tries to guess the device (on openSUSE 12.2 and SLES11 SP2 you can influess the guessing - see below this table for instructions on how to do that). A RAID must always have "/dev/md" as device.

initialize

If set to "true", the partition table gets wiped out before AutoYaST starts the partition calculation.

<initialize config:type="boolean"
>true</initialize>

Optional. The default is "false".

partitions

A list of <partition> entries (see table below).

<partitions config:type="list">
  <partition>...</partition>
  ...
</partitions>

Optional. If no partitions are specified, AutoYaST will create a reasonable partitioning (see Automated Partitioning below).

pesize

This value makes only sense with LVM/EVMS.

<pesize>8M</pesize>

Optional. Default is 4M for EVMS/LVM volume groups.

use

Specifies the strategy AutoYaST will use to partition the hard disk.

Choose between:

This parameter should be provided.

type

Specify the type of the drive

Choose between:

<type config:type="symbol">CT_LVM</type>

Optional. Default is CT_DISK for a normal physical hard disk.

disklabel

Describes the type of the partition table.

Choose between:

<disklabel>gpt</disklabel>

Optional and available since openSUSE 12.1 and SLES11 SP2. By default YaST decides what makes sense (msdos in most cases).

keep_unknown_lv

This value only makes sense for type=CT_LVM drives. If you are reusing a LVG and you set this to "true", all existing LVs in that VG will not be touched unless they are specified in the <partitioning> section. So you can keep existing LVs without specifying them.

<keep_unknown_lv config:type="boolean"
>false</keep_unknown_lv>

Optional and available since openSUSE 12.1 and SLES11 SP2. The default is "false".

create

Specify if this partition must be created or if it already exists.

<create config:type="boolean"
>false</create>

If set to "false", provide information for AutoYaST which partition this is (like with partition_nr).

mount

The mountpoint of this partition.

<mount>/</mount>

<mount>swap</mount>

You should have at least a root partition (/) and a swap partition.

fstopt

Mount options for this partition.

<fstopt
>ro,noatime,user,data=ordered,acl,user_xattr</fstopt>

See man mount for available mount options.

label

The label of the partition (useful for the "mountby" parameter; see below).

<label>mydata</label>

See man e2label for an example.

uuid

The uuid of the partition (only useful for the "mountby" parameter; see below).

<uuid
>1b4e28ba-2fa1-11d2-883f-b9a761bde3fb</uuid>

See man uuidgen.

size

The size of the partition, e.g. 4G, 4500M, etc. The /boot partition and the swap partition can have "auto" as size. Then AutoYaST calculates a reasonable size. One partition can have the value "max" to use all remaining space.

You can specify the the size in percentage. So 10% will use 10% of the size of the hard disk or VG. You can mix auto, max, size, and percentage as you like.

<size>10G</size>

format

Specify if AutoYaST should format the partition.

<format config:type="boolean">false</format>

If you set "create" to "true", then you likely want this is option set to "true" as well.

filesystem

Specify the filesystem to use on this partition:

<filesystem config:type="symbol"
>reiser</filesystem>

Optional. The default is reiser

partition_nr

The partition number of this partition. If you have set create=false or if you use LVM, then you can specify the partition via partition_nr. You can force AutoYaST to only create primary partitions by assigning numbers below 5.

<partition_nr config:type="integer"
>2</partition_nr>

In most cases, numbers 1 to 4 are primary partitions while 5 and higher are logical partitions.

partition_id

The partition_id sets the id of the partition. If you want different identifiers than 131 for Linux partition or 130 for swap, configure them with partition_id.

<partition_id config:type="integer"
>131</partition_id>

The default is 131 for linux partition and 130 for swap.

mountby

Instead of a partition number, you can tell AutoYaST to mount a partition by device, label, uuid, path or id, which are the udev path and udev id (see /dev/disk/...).

<mountby config:type="symbol"
>label</mountby>

See "label" and "uuid" documentation above. The default depends on YaST and is id in most cases. It was device in the past.

subvolumes

List of subvolumes to create for a filesystem of type btrfs. This key only make sense for filesystems of type btrfs. If there is a default subvolume used for the distribution (like e.g. "@" in SLES11 SP2) the name of this default subvolume is automatically prepended to the names in this list.

<subvolumes config:type="list">
    <path>tmp</path>
    <path>opt</path>
    <path>srv</path>
    <path>var/crash</path>
    <path>var/lock</path>
    <path>var/run</path>
    <path>var/tmp</path>
    <path>var/spool</path>
    ...
</subvolumes>

this key is available since openSUSE 12.3 and SLES11 SP3

lv_name

If this partition is in a logical volume in a volume group (LVM or EVMS) specify the logical volume name here (see is_lvm_vg or is_evms_vg parameter in drive configuration).

<lv_name>opt_lv</lv_name>

stripes

An integer that configures LVM striping. Specify across how many devices you want to stripe (spread data).

<stripes config:type="integer">2</stripes>

stripesize

Specify the size of each block in kb.

<stripesize config:type="integer"
>4</stripesize>

lvm_group

If this is a physical partition used by (part of) a volume group (LVM), you have to specify the name of the volume group here.

<lvm_group>system</lvm_group>

evms_group

If this physical partition is used by a volume group (EVMS), you have to specify the name of the volume group here.

<evms_group>system</evms_group>

raid_name

If this physical volume is part of a RAID, specify the name of the RAID.

<raid_name>/dev/md0</raid_name>

raid_type

Specify the type of the RAID.

<raid_type>raid1</raid_type>

raid_options

Specify RAID options, see below.

<raid_options>...</raid_options>

resize

This boolean must be "true" if an existing partition should be resized. In this case, you want to set create to false and in most cases you don't want to format the partition. You need to tell AutoYaST the partition_nr and the size. The size can be in percentage of the original size or a number, like 800M. max and auto do not work as size here.

<resize config:type="boolean"
>false</resize>

The resize only works with physical disks. Not with LVM/EVMS volumes.

chunk_size

<chunk_size>4</chunk_size>

parity_algorithm

Possible values are: left_asymmetric, left_symmetric, right_asymmetric, right_symmetric. Since SLES11 SP2 and openSUSE 12.1 you can use: parity_first, parity_last, left_asymmetric_6, left_symmetric_6, right_asymmetric_6, right_symmetric_6, parity_first_6, n2, o2, f2, n3, o3, f3 for RAID6 and RAID10

<parity_algorithm
>left_asymmetric</parity_algorithm>

raid_type

Possible values are: raid0,raid1 and raid5.

<raid_type>raid1</raid_type>

The default is raid1.

device_order

this list contains the optional order of the physical devices

<device_order config:type="list">
   <device>/dev/sdb2</device>
   <device>/dev/sda1</device>
   ...
</device_order>

this is optional and the default is alphabetical order

this key is available since openSUSE 12.2 and SLES11 SP3