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 ...

I am a complete idiot and I did this on my wife's computer. I had XP and Ubuntu on this system on different partitions. I went into right click my computer manage and click on disk management and I ...

I just installed mandrake 9 RC3 on a previously functioning win2k system. The boot drive was originally partitioned in half with ntfs on both. I cleared the data off the non-windows partition and ...

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 ...

Logical Volume Management (LVM) is an abstraction layer over the hard drives, which allows the Linux kernel to access the filesystems normally, yet each filesystem may be comprised of multiple hard ...

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Loading up virtual machines is an easy to accomplish task, but configuring them properly is an ongoing balancing act. It’s very likely that in a virtualized environment you will over/under provision ...