One of the most confusing and intimidating parts of installing Linux for dual-booting with Windows is the disk partitioning required.

Conclusion Mastering disk management in Linux unlocks the full potential of your system's storage capabilities. Whether through traditional partitioning or the advanced features of LVM, understanding ...

Corresponding to this, Linux reserves the first four device names on a disk drive to match these four partitions - regardless of how many partitions you actually create.

Partitioning means writing the hard drive sectors that will make up the partition table. It contains information on the partition, including sector size, position with respect to the primary partition ...

You can format an external hard drive in Ubuntu using the Gnome Partition Editor. It provides a graphical interface to simplify formatting and resizing hard drive partitions, even on external drives.

My windows install was giving me a lot of grief today, (kept freezing while formatting the hard drive) so I popped in a Mandrake 8.0 disc just to see if the install would complete.Anyways, now ...

There are only two reasons to partition or format (or both) a PC hard disc drive: one, because it is a brand new drive that you're about to install on your machine, or two, the programs or data ...

I've got a Lacie Big Disk extreme hooked up via FW400 to a Redhat 8 kernel in a cluster. I need more space and am planning to buy more of the disks, as they have worked great for what I need (I ...