Get information about your swap partition with this simple command.

This command will print information about your swap partition easily using the Linux command line. root@Yog-Sothoth:~# swapon -s -v Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/sda5 partition 7811068 0 -2 /dev/dm-1 partition 62500860 0 -3root@Yog-Sothoth:~# swapon -s -v Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/sda5 partition 7811068 0 -2 /dev/dm-1 partition 62500860 0 -3 The –show parameter … Read more

How to format a new Linux partition with the command line.

This is how to format a hard disk partition that will hold data for your Linux system. The partition must be unmounted before formatting, but this is the ideal way to create a file-system on a new partition that has been created with fdisk. root@jason-desktop:~# mkfs.ext4 mkfs.ext4 mkfs.ext4dev root@jason-desktop:~# mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdd3 mke2fs 1.42.13 (17-May-2015) /dev/sdd3 … Read more

How to format a partition in Linux. This is very easy.

Formatting a partition in Linux is very easy when you use the mkfs command. In this example I am formatting a 35 gigabyte partition with an EXT4 file-system. I am intending to try out a Linux From Scratch build and I want to have a dedicated partition to build this on. jason@eyjafjallajkull:~/Documents$ sudo mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdb2 … Read more

How I created a new swap partition for my Linux Mint 14 PC using Gparted.

I have 6 Gigabytes of RAM in my computer and I found out that my swap partition was only 2 Gigabytes. So I needed to create a larger partition. I used the Gparted application to delete a useless Gentoo partition and then I created a 12 Gigabyte partition to use as swap space. This will … Read more

Mounting a Windows XP partition that was improperly shut down.

This is how to fix this issue with an NTFS drive that was not properly shutdown and therefore is not able to be mounted on Linux. https://securitronlinux.com/debian-testing/how-i-fixed-an-external-hard-drive-that-was-not-cleanly-unmounted-in-windows/. This will help out a user trying to to mount a Windows XP partition that was improperly shut down. This is very annoying when it happens, but this … Read more