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 ...

If you need to move your Linux installation to a different hard drive or partition (and keep it working) and your distro uses grub this tech tip is what you need. To start, get a live CD and boot into ...

I posted on here yesterday about my boot disk messing up when I upgraded to RH 7.3 from 7.2. Well I dual boot with WinXP, so I was unable to get into Linux after I discovered there was something wrong ...

Vincent Danen goes over the basics of using the standard dd tool to back up and copy partitions and drives. There are a lot of backup utilities available, but the simplest backup tool is available ...

December 1, 2010 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google There's nothing more annoying than booting into OS X only to realize you need access to some files on your ...

There are some situations where you'll wish you had one.

Partitions split one physical drive into multiple virtual drives. Each one uses an assigned piece of physical real estate on the media, and is treated by the operating system as a separate drive with ...