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 ...

In the comments on my recent posts about installing Linux on a netbook for a novice user (see my recommendations and my own results), someone mentioned that figuring out the disk partitioning was very ...

The main thing I am unsure about is the RAID1 thing. Is this a good idea? How do I set it up? I imagine it won't be quite as easy as telling him to use some space on sda to mirror the stuff that ...

Currently, I'm just monkeying around with Gentoo on a slave 15gig drive, so my partitioning is sub-optimal (I kinda followed the install guide):<br><br>2GB - swap (double my RAM)<br>32MB - ...

In the beginning days of Unix and later Linux, disks were physically large, but very small in terms of storage capacity. A 300 megabyte disk in the mid-90’s was the size of a shoebox. Today, you can ...

Linux systems provide many ways to look at disk partitions. Here's a look at commands you can use to display useful information -- each providing a different format and with a different focus. Linux ...