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Display of attached partitionable media, disk geometry and partition maps
This will display an overview of the partitionable media in table form, plus extensive geometry and size information for each disk. For each disk a pseudo-graphical map will be shown, with each partition or freespace area sized and colored according to its real size and type of filesystem being used. Some key information for each area will be shown inside each partition or freespace area displayed. Note that a 'disk' can be any partionable media supported by DFSee, like physical disks, virtual-disks, images and others ... - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'
Create a new partition defined by freespace selection and prompted values
When any freespace area exists that could be used to create a new partition, this will present you with a list of freespace areas. When a specific freespace area is selected, the actual CREATE dialog will be presented that allows further specification of the partition to be created. In the selection list, freespace areas that are either too small, or located such that no partition could be created there, are listed but cannot be selected (they are disabled, black text). If all entries are disabled, no partitions can be created at all. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'
Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a freespace area to be used
Delete a partition from the partition-tables and (primary) LVM-information
A partition can be selected here that will be DELETED from the partition-tables. This will result in the space occupied by the partition becoming FREESPACE that can be used again to create new partitions. For primary partitions on LVM-systems, the related LVM-information is cleared as well, to avoid consistency problems later when a new partition is created at the same position. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'
Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a partition to be used
Set partition properties: ACTIVE, HIDDEN, VISIBLE, MULTIPLE-VISIBLE-PRIMARY
Set one of a few related properties for a partition: - ACTIVE This will set the selected partition the ACTIVE (startable) one, so it will be the one booted by the BIOS for this disk. There should only be ONE active partition on each disk, and this should be a PRIMARY partition - HIDDEN A partition can be selected here that will be HIDDEN for the operating system by manipulating the partition-type. - VISIBLE A partition can be selected here that will be made VISIBLE for the operating system by manipulating the partition-type. Other visible primaries on the same disk will be hidden. - MULTI-VIS A partition can be selected here that will be made VISIBLE for the operating system by manipulating the partition-type. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'
Make partition the ACTIVE (startable) one, started by default by the BIOS
A PRIMARY partition can be selected here that will be made the ACTIVE one for the disk, meaning the BIOS would start the operating system in this partition at boot time. Selecting a LOGICAL will result in an error message. There should only be a single active partition on every disk. When the system starts, the BIOS will usually boot from the ACTIVE partition on the first disk. In IBM BMGR/LVM terms the active partition is called STARTABLE. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'
Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a partition to be used
Make partition NOT ACTIVE, clearing the status flag, NOT booted by the BIOS
A PRIMARY partition can be selected here that will be made NOT ACTIVE, meaning it will NOT be started by the BIOS. Selecting a LOGICAL will result in an error message. There should be at most ONE active partition on every disk. When the system starts, the BIOS will usually boot from the ACTIVE partition on the first disk. In IBM BMGR/LVM terms the active partition is called STARTABLE. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'
Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a partition to be used
Make partition HIDDEN by manipulating the partition-type (non-LVM method)
A partition can be selected here that will be HIDDEN for the operating system by manipulating the partition-type. The type is changed by adding 0x10 to the value (0x06 ==> 0x16) and will result in the partition not being seen anymore by most operating systems. This method will work for partition-types 0x01 through 0x0e only, with the 'hidden' values being in the range 0x11 through 0x1e Operating systems like Windows-XP and LVM-aware OS/2 and eCS will still see those partitions however, since they use a different mechanism to hide and show partitions. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'
Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a partition to be used
Make partition VISIBLE by manipulating the partition-type (non-LVM method)
A partition can be selected here that will be made VISIBLE for the operating system by manipulating the partition-type. The type is changed by subtracting 0x10 from the value (0x16 ==> 0x06) and will result in the partition being seen again. This method will work for partition-types 0x01 through 0x0e only, with the 'hidden' values being in the range 0x11 through 0x1e If the partitions is a PRIMARY one, other primary partitions on the same disk will be hidden by default. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'
Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a partition to be used
Make partition VISIBLE, allow multiple visible primaries (non-LVM method)
A partition can be selected here that will be made VISIBLE for the operating system by manipulating the partition-type. The type is changed by subtracting 0x10 from the value (0x16 ==> 0x06) and will result in the partition being seen again. This method will work for partition-types 0x01 through 0x0e only, with the 'hidden' values being in the range 0x11 through 0x1e When the partition is a PRIMARY, the other primaries on the same disk will NOT be affected. This may result in multiple-primary partitions being visible, which could be a problem for some older operating systems. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'
Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a partition to be used
Write new MBR bootcode to selected disk(s), but KEEP all partitions intact
The boot-code in the master-boot-record (MBR) for the disk to be selected here will be refreshed to generic extended-int-13 aware bootcode by DFSee. This will get rid of any MBR virii, but would also remove MBR resident bootmanagers like LILO, GRUB or AirBoot as well as disk-translation software like Ontrack diskmanager. The partition-tables which are also in the same MBR sector are NOT affected by this action, so all partitions will still be there. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'
Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a disk to be used , including 'ALL disks'
Wipe the start (10 MiB) of the selected disk completely clean to all ZEROES
This will WIPE the first 10 megabytes of the selected disk to all ZEROES, completely removing remains of MBR partition-tables as well as any bootmanagers living in the MBR area, LVM info and the partitions tables and bootsectors for the first partition. Useful when installing a new (picky) operating system that uses the old information in unexpected ways :-) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'
Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a disk to be used
Cleanup multiple/incorrect ACTIVE flags and EXT container sizes and offsets
Partition-table flag values for PRIMARY partitions will be checked and corrected where needed, avoiding multiple ACTIVE partitions and non-standard flag values. Both could cause boot-failures ... All, partition-table entries in the extended-container chain will be checked, recalculated and rewritten when needed. - Any EMPTY containers (EBR without a logical, just a link) will be removed from the chain. This will allow the freespace area that the EBR was in, to be used for new primary partitions, or as COPY/MOVE destination. - ACTIVE extended containers (status flag 0x80) will be RESET - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'
Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a disk to be used , including 'ALL disks'
Update CHS values in partition-tables to match disk-geometry and CHS-style
All CHS-values for the disk to be selected here will be checked against the current disk-geometry, and be corrected to match that geometry when needed. it will also make sure ALL partition-table entries on the selected disk(s) will use the SAME CHS-style IBM/PQ/MS for dummy entries. You may get an extra dialog allowing selection of the desired style, depending on previous selections made ... This may fix 'partition-tables on disk may be corrupt' messages from FDISK/LVM or errors and warnings by other tools. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Press <F1> again for more help; Some options may require switching to 'Expert mode'
Selection of this item leads to a dynamic created submenu, to select a disk to be used , including 'ALL disks'
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