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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Identical mount points for two file systems when installing Linux
So, I'm going through Crunchbang's installer (very similar to Debian's), and am at the partitioning step. I chose the 'Guided - use entire disk and set up encrypted LVM' method (usually I do manual ...
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When and why do block devices need to be partitioned? [closed]
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The merits of a partitionless filesystem
So I've got a block device, say /dev/sda or /dev/loop0. Clearly if I want to boot from the former, or I want to subdivide it ...
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Partition table not recognized by Linux kernel
I experience relatively often that the partition table of a USB stick or SD card is suddenly no longer recognized by the kernel while (g)parted and fdisk still see it, as do other systems. I can even ...
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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 to restore a logical partition to it's original ext4 format
This question is following Unable to mount /home/ partition after reinstalling grub after reinstalling windows 7 where the diagnostic was that installing windows 7 deleted my /home partion, lovingly ...
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Unable to mount /home/ partition after reinstalling grub after reinstalling windows 7
I've reinstall windows 7 on it's asignated partition and, as usually, it override the MBR with it's own stuff and, thus, it was not possible to boot to my ubuntu 12.04 partition.
I followed the step ...
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How to add a Linux Partition on FreeBSD
Today I installed FreeBSD 9.0 PPC on my Mac mini G4 with 40GB HDD.
During installation, (using the FSBD utility 'gpart') I have allocated a total of about 23GB for FreeBSD leaving 17GB totally free ...
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Help with unzipping a .dd.gz, possibly corrupted
I recieved this file that I was told was a copy of a hard drive (or disk). The file is "sheeva-mem.dd.gz". I tried to unzip the file in a linux Fedora machine. This yielded "unexpected end of file". ...
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Move / to a new partition
I have Windows 7 and Debian dual-booted on my laptop. I'm getting cramped for space on the Debian side, so I want to remove the Windows partition and use the whole computer for Debian. I'm currently ...
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Format disk through rootfs terminal
I've got into a strange situation (because of my own stupidity of course:-)). I kept failing to install Chakra Linux from Live USB, so I was thinking that the reason could be that I created the Live ...
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Expanding root partition in SUSE Linux
I have a server where the space distribution among partitions is as follows:
GSSJMB02:~ # df -kh
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/cciss/c0d0p5 25G 5.9G 18G 25% /
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How to properly align partitions?
I'm trying to understand what are the rules for creating correctly aligned partitions.
For the moment I'm playing with parted on a virtual machine, but I'm planning to move to a real hard disk when I ...
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How to extend second CentOS 5 partition in VMware
I know this question has already been answered for a primary partition, but what about a secondary?
I have extended the space to 30G in VMware. When I perform an fdisk -l, here's the output:
Disk ...
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Is it better to partition one drive or use separate drives?
I am a system admin with limited Linux experience, and have been tasked with setting up Cent OS 5.8 64bit install, and creating a template once complete.
My main client base will be developers, and I ...
