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 ...

Hello Linux forum.<BR>I have SUSE linux installed on the end of my HD, but I haven't got into it very much and need to grab back most of the 7Gb+ space I assigned to it. The LILO is on a floppy. Is it ...

Let's start by clearly stating what this post is, and what it isn't. It is a description of how I set up multi-boot for Linux systems, sometimes including Windows, using the GRUB bootloader. It is not ...

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 ...