If partitioning a drive with Disk Utility gives you unmount or resource busy errors, there may be workarounds you can use. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing ...

Why partitioning your largest drives actually makes sense now (when it didn't before) ...

Partitioning your hard drive divides your disk into multiple independent sections. The partitions function as separate drives, so that if one gets corrupted, no other partition's files suffer any ...

Synology DSM partitions a 2tb drive as 2.38g for the OS 2.00gb for the swap file and an 127mb "unallocated" before user created partitions and 99mb "unallocated" after. I think the space for the OS ...

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 ...

On purchasing a brand new computer, the hard drive usually has a single partition. However, you may need multiple partitions to organize your data and even protect it from data loss. You can view ...

In my posting last week, The best defense against software problems: disk imaging, I tried to make a case for disk image backups. They are the Rodney Dangerfield of software, they get no respect. I’ve ...

The Windows operating system has a username and password-protection feature, but it is only for signing in to the operating system and not to protect hard disk partitions. If your business stores ...

When you get a new Mac, it comes with one startup drive (a hard disk or, in a few cases, a solid-state disk) named “Macintosh HD.” This arrangement is perfectly fine for most of us, but it’s not your ...

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, ...

I've had this argument with some colleagues of mine ... I thought I would get the Ars Hive Mind involved.<BR><BR>The typical "old school" (as I call it) thinking involves intricate partitioning ...