When you create "Logical Partitions" within the "Extended Partition", Linux (and GRUB) start naming them after the four reserved names.

I have a hard drive which has a Primary partition ( WinMe ) and Extended Partition with four Logical Drives. XP being on one of them. I have about 18G freespace and was wondering if I could create ...

Logical volumes are an alternate method of partitioning hard drive space. The capability has been built into the Linux kernel since 1999, contributed by Sistina Software. The Logical Volume ...

I could use diskutil to shrink the partition and then create a new partition, and copy the iso image (via dd) into that partition, and then boot Linux from the internal HD and do the upgrade.

The physical partition image that holds multiple Android dynamic partitions is conventionally named super.img and holds similar information as an LVM physical volume on Linux: a list of logical ...

Partitions are logical divisions of space on a hard drive. When Windows or Linux is installed as the only operating system, they will usually create partitions that take up the whole hard drive. With ...

Edit and create partitions, copy files off, test your memory and more with this free Linux-based partitioning utility/boot disc. Note: This review addresses v6.0 of the software. As of January ...