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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Currently, I'm just monkeying around with Gentoo on a slave 15gig drive, so my partitioning is sub-optimal (I kinda followed the install guide):<br><br>2GB - swap (double my RAM)<br>32MB - ...

Void Linux is a unique and highly customizable Linux distribution that stands out due to its independence from other distributions and its use of the runit init system instead of systemd. This guide ...

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 ...