Partition schemes in Linux are the bane of the existence of many new (and experienced) Linux users. What partition setup should you use when dual-booting Windows and Linux? How should I set up my ...

Fdisk is a command-line menu-driven utility that is shipped with all Linux distributions to manipulate your disk partition table. When you get a fresh piece of the disk, you need to create partitions ...

Windows is hibernated, refused to mount. The disk contains an unclean file system (0, 0). Metadata kept in Windows cache, refused to mount. Falling back to read-only mount because the NTFS partition ...

You have data on your machines. Some of that data might be in the form of sensitive company or client information. Should that particular information fall into the wrong hands, well, you know that ...

Backing up your data is a way to ensure that your important data will be safe against unplanned situations. This can be achieved by numerous ways. One can either use methods native to the Operating ...

Operating systems, such as Linux, provides partitioning software to resize partitions without any data loss. It's possible to resize a partition using Gparted in an easy and a convenient way. Gparted ...

As a Linux user, you may have encountered the term “swap partition” at one point or another. But what is a Linux swap partition, and why do you need one? In this article, we’ll cover everything you ...

The create_partition role lets you safely create and mount a Linux partition. There are checks in place to ensure you only create the partition if the partition didn't exist before. Devices upon ...