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If you have say a new solid state drive that is not formatted you first need to put a partition table on it. A new partition data will get rid of all partitions on the disk which means no data will be visible anymore. Then you will need to create a partition on to store data. On unallocated space you can right click on the unallocated space press the :guilabel:`New` button, :menuselection:`Partition --> New`, or press :kbd:`control+N`. A window will popup saying with what type of settings to create the partition with. To change what filesystem you want to create will show in the :guilabel:`File system:` drop down menu. To change what size of partition you want to create change the :guilabel:`Size:` field. To create free space before the partition change the :guilabel:`Free space before:` field. To change free space after the partition change the :guilabel:`Free space after` field. To actually create the partition press the :guilabel:`OK` button while to cancel press the :guilabel:`Cancel` button.
..warning::
Creating a new partition table on a disk with data on it will cause the loss of all data on the entire disk not just a partition.
To change a mount point of a drive internally for your machine to have it start mounted access to it always :menuselection:`Partition --> Edit Mount Point` or :menuselection:`Edit Mount Point`. This will popup a new window to choose the path where to mount this partition enter it in the :guilabel:`Path` field. Below there are many :guilabel:`Options` for how to mount things. To actually cause this to be mounted press the :guilabel:`OK` button. To cancel mounting this partition press the :guilabel:`Cancel` button. Once this happens you will get a dialog asking if you really want to do this as it changes the file in etc/fstab. To really go through with changing this press the :guilabel:`Save changes` button. To not save these changes press the :guilabel:`Cancel` button. After you have done this you can right click on this drive and select :guilabel:`Mount` to mount it immediately. Once saved in /etc/fstab your drive will be saved and mounted at this point every time. However if you want to edit a mount point you will need to unmount the partition first and you can do this from right clicking and selecting :guilabel:`Unmount`.
To view information of a partition on your drive double click on it. On the top a bar code on the top shows how full the partition is. To see what kind of file system it is in the :guilabel:`File system` field. To see a label on your filesystem look at the :guilabel:`Label` field. To see where that partition is mounted is in the :guilabel:`Mount point` field. To see what partition type you use in the :guilabel:`Partition type` field. To see the size of the partition is in the :guilabel:`Size` field. To see the available size read the :guilabel:`Available` field. To see how much is used of your partition see the :guilabel:`Used` label.
