Automatic partitioning is safe and fast for standard installs—choose it if unsure. Manual partitioning is needed if you dual-boot, use LVM, or want separate filesystems for different partitions. Plan ...

Partitioning your hard drive sounds like a technically involved task that most people don’t need to bother with—but it’s actually relatively simple to do, doesn’t have to cost you any money, and can ...

My setup is:<BR><BR>2.6.16 kernel<BR>3ware 9500 Raid controller<BR>8 * 500GB sata drives (3.2 TB)<BR><BR>- and I have a 70Gb boot drive on /dev/sdb1<BR><BR>I want to use the xfs file system on the ...

Partitioning your hard drive divides your disk into multiple independent sections. The partitions function as separate drives, so that if one gets corrupted, no other partition's files suffer any ...

On purchasing a brand new computer, the hard drive usually has a single partition. However, you may need multiple partitions to organize your data and even protect it from data loss. You can view ...

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Select your primary partition on the upper part of the menu (usually named C:). At the bottom part of the menu, you can now view all the partition volumes for the C: partition. Right-click on the ...

There may be times where you've either decided to partition a drive or are finished with a partition and wish to remove it and dedicate the space to another partition. The disk management tool Disk ...