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 ...

I want to create an 80Gb hard drive partition scheme that looks like this:<BR><BR>Partition 1: [-- 7.5Gb FAT32 Win2k --]<BR>Partition 2: [-- 7.5Gb ext2 Linux --]<BR>Partition 3: [-- 65Gb NTFS Data ...

Editor’s note (1/12/10): For more-current advice, see “How (and Why) to Partition Your Hard Drive.” No matter the capacity of your PC’s hard drive, chances are that it’s set up to function as one ...

A partition separates a section of a physical disk into another virtual drive. When you split a hard drive into two partitions, you're creating a separate disk that your operating system (like Windows ...

In another article in this issue of Linux Journal [page 84], I talk about my experiences with the new solid state drive (SSD) I installed on my laptop. One of the things I didn't mention in the ...

So I've been dual-booting linux and windows variants since around September now, playing around with things, etc. getting used to stuff and whatnot. In the time that I've had a linux distro on my ...

Most PCs come from the factory with a single partition on their hard drive, meaning that it shows up as one drive in the Computer window (as C:, typically). But keeping your data, applications, and ...