As usual, this blog post comes out of something I have been working on (read as: struggling with) for the past few days. The purpose is to give an overview of disk partitioning under Linux, ...

In disk management my secondary hardrive is has a layout of simple and a dynamic type. How does this very from layout = partition and type = basic?

Planning to shrink a 120 GB Windows OS partition to 80 GB, but struggling to recall any reliable partition managers? We have highlighted the names of some of the best free Partition Manager software ...

Merging disk partitions is useful to optimize disk space, especially when managing multiple partitions on a single disk. However, Windows Disk Management can only merge adjacent partitions, and it ...

There may be times where you've either decided to partition a drive or are finished with a partition and wish to remove it and dedicate the space to another partition. The disk management tool Disk ...

From the Credit-Where-Credit-Is-Due Dept. Apparently Lenovo is listening. A few weeks ago I criticized the Lenovo Yoga 13 for a wasteful default hard disk partitioning scheme that sliced its 128 GB ...

When you buy a new hard drive, your first impulse may be to connect it to your Mac and start copying files to the new drive. But with all that new storage space it might make sense to partition the ...