Using fdisk to list and create partitions on a hard drive.
How to create a new partition on a HDD with fdisk.
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How to get the date and time when a partition was last mounted on Linux?
How to get the date and time a partition was last mounted.
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Why having a separate home directory is a good thing when you need to reinstall Linux for some reason.
Read MoreGet 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…
Read MoreHow 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…
Read MoreHow 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…
Read MoreHow to format a partition on Linux using the mkfs command.
The formatting of a hard disk partition on Linux is not very difficult if you use the right command. The mkfs command is used on Linux for this task; I will be showing a simple example of its usage here to make it clear how this is done. This is…
Read MoreHow 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…
Read MoreMounting 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…
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