If you just installed a new hard drive in your computer and you are running the Ubuntu operating system, you must partition and format the new drive before you can use it. To use the drive with Ubuntu ...

When it comes time to replace your computer's hard drive, the prospect of reinstalling all your operating system and programs is exhausting. However, by copying your Ubuntu partition over to your new ...

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 ...

I recently got a new pre-loved laptop and as always I nuked Windows but in the process of booting up, I noticed that my BIOS was a bit out of date. Like a whole year out of date. Flashing your BIOS in ...

To install Ubuntu permanently on your PC, you'll need to have a hard disk area set up for it. There are three common options for this setup: Replace the existing operating system on your hard drive ...

Partitioning means writing the hard drive sectors that will make up the partition table. It contains information on the partition, including sector size, position with respect to the primary partition ...