Disk partitioning is the act of dividing a hard disk drive into multiple logical storage units referred to as partitions, to treat one physical disk drive as if it were multiple disks.
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Is it possible to remove Windows 7 from dual-boot?
I have Windows 7 as primary OS with Linux Mint as secondary OS. I am just feeling comfortable with Linux and want to remove Windows from the disk.
Is it possible to remove it without damaging data?
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How do I make use of unused space on my boot drive on FreeBSD
I have an old FreeBSD Server (running 7.3-RELEASE) that desperately needs additional storage. In fact, it has some-- the original 20G SCSI drives have been replaced by 300G SCSI drives, so in theory ...
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Dual boot - Kubuntu and Windows 8 - how to?
I recently installed Windows 8 on my computer.
These are the specs:
Fx-8150 CPU
8 GB RAM
ATI HD7870
120 GB SSD
2 TB HDD
Mainboard: Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 (rev 1.1) (only bios but EFI mode possible ...
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How to create partition in ubuntu server 12.10
I'm trying to create partition during Ubuntu Server installation(12.10).Now I have a 500GB hard disk where I need to create a partition of 200GB for root file system and another 20GB for swap space ...
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How to use ms-sys to restore MBR to boot /dev/sda2?
My brother screwed up a multi-OS install on his laptop and asked me to help fix it. I'm a basic linux user and I know my way around the terminal a little but beyond that I might need some hand-holding ...
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Extended partition should have many filesystems
I need some related information on the following lines I found in an answer:
A logical partition is a container for a filesystem (or an LVM volume or some swap space or a BSD partition or other ...
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How to mount an encrypted TrueCrypt partition always in the same point?
I just formatted my external HD and divided it in two partitions: an ext4 where important information will be, and a ntfs for "compatibility" things (i.e. movies, music, etc).
I encrypted the ext4 ...
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Flashing rootfs on Embedded Linux with Limited RAM
I'm fairly new to the embedded world, so forgive me if this seems obvious.
I'm working on a board based off of the AT91SAM9260. I have 256MB of flash and 64MB of RAM. The current setup flashes two ...
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Why does my Pandaboard boot partition need to be vfat, and the rootfs need to be ext3 or ext4?
While booting Android on a Pandaboard, I am partitioning the SD card into two partitions, boot and root. They contain different filesystems. Why does the boot partition need to be vfat, while the ...
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How to setup KVM partitions?
I'm trying to install SolusVM/KVM on a server with one 500 GB HD and one 256 SSD. I am a complete beginner at Linux. SolusVM has a script on the site to download and install automatically, but how do ...
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Setup Cloudmin on Centos installed in LVM
I installed CentOS 6 with default LVM partition pattern. according to this pattern Can I use Cloudmin and store KVM Disks in LVM as Logical Volume? I think Cloudmin requires creating new logical ...
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How Solaris sub-partitions can be accessed in FreeBSD?
First of all, Linux detects it okay:
sdg1: <solaris: [s0] sdg5 [s1] sdg6 [s2] sdg7 [s8] sdg8 >
But FreeBSD 9.0 does show only main partition. Possibly only Solaris labels for sparc64 is ...
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partitions problem with Debian Squeeze and Windows 7 (Partition 1 does not end on cylinder boundary)
I have just installed Debian Squeeze in a hard disk where also Windows 7 is installed.
Now, if I run cfdisk, I get the following message:
"FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 3: Partition ends in the ...
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restore filesystem after fdisk
I split a partition in two with fdisk, but after rebooting I've got partition in FAT filesystem (was ext4). What's can be wrong? And how to fix it or get data from bad partition? I hope this is ...
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How to boot into FreeBSD installed in the second partition of an external drive
I have installed FreeBSD 9.1 on the second partition of an external hard disk and I'm not able to get my computer to boot from it. FreeBSD was installed using the FreeBSD memstick image dd'd onto a ...
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Block Devices & Partitions
I partitioned a microSD card (mmcblk1) into two partitions mmcblk1p1 and mmcblk1p2.
If use a dedicated card reader I am able to see the entire SD card and its partitions using various disk management ...
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/home partition recovery
Unhappy with Gnome 3 in Ubuntu I tried Mint 14. Had a backup of my home partition. During the Mint installation I designated my old home partition, and when it booted everything was fine.
There ...
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Tool to reduce a partition's size and create a new one from the command-line
At the moment I don't have any free space:
(parted) mkpart
Partition type? primary/extended? primary
File system type? [ext2]? ext4
Start? 60G
End? 62.9G
Warning: You requested a partition from ...
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WD MyBook 3TB - Gparted failed & HDD partitions recovery?
I have this new WD MyBook external HDD (USB 3.0/2.0); I created 3 partitions all of them ext3 type (~1 TB | ~1 TB | ~750 GB)
I loaded lots of files all the partitions were like ~30% full on each, and ...
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Discovering EMC PowerPath LUNs and creating partitions on Solaris
I have to work with EMC PowerPath disks/LUNs. I find them in the /dev/dsk/ directory under names such as emcpower0a, emcpower0b, …, emcpower0z, emcpower1a, …
Here are my points of confusion:
Inside ...
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I have replicated partition after I delete it using diskmgmt
I'm a linux newbie, and I messed my partition.
I have 5 partition in my 500GB HD, Windows 7, Data, Data, Linux Mint and Lubuntu.
I accidentally deleted Lubuntu partition using diskmgmt in Windows 7.
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How to force drop all partitions and erase disk from terminal?
My question is in fact related to OS X, however I'm using Linux tools to resolve my problem.
I'm trying to delete all the partitions on my SSD drive and create new GUID (HFS+) partition table. Native ...
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Partitioning for Citrix Xenserver 6.1
How should look the partitioning of a 1TB hard drive for a dedicated server running Citrix Xenserver 6.1 ?
mount: / ext4 ?size?
swap swap ?size?
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Multiple Linux or Unix Distributions, Same Home Partition or Data?
To avoid conflicts I have always installed multiple Linux and Unix distributions each with it's own home partion or directory, and in the era of 3TB hard drives this is often very practical; I also do ...
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Boot disk unavailable
Background
I've got one 32GB SSD that I have Ubuntu 12.10 installed on (this drive is encrypted), and two 1.5TB drives that will serve as storage and backup respectively. I have formated both drives ...
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Xubuntu installer not showing NTFS option
So, I wanted a part of my extended partition to be NTFS formatted to access my data from both Win 7 and Xubuntu OSes. Only problem, Xubuntu installer did not show the NTFS option when I was manual ...
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How long does it take for fls (from the Sleuth Kit) to run on a ntfs partition of 110 GiB (96% used)?
I have been running fls (from the Sleuth Kit) since last night, in verbose mode, hoping it will identify the files and directories I just deleted before running the program.
sudo fls -f ntfs -d -r ...
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Linux Mint can not see my partitions - installation problem
Scenario:
On my laptop I have Windows 7
My disk drive has several partitions whereof not all are used (for now)
My plan is to install Linux Mint on the 20000 MB (19,53 GB) partition (called I: in ...
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GParted doesn't recognize the unallocated space after my current partition
I'm using GParted to resize my partitions on Linux. There is about 5GB of unallocated space following the partition sda5. However, when I right click on sda5 and select 'resize/move', it doesn't show ...
