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 ...

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

A SATA drive will only let you have a maximum of four partitions for example, and you will also need to create a small swap partition. When you come to install a Linux distro, make sure you select ...

Pro & Cons of Creating Logical Volumes in Linux. Logical volumes are an alternate method of partitioning hard drive space. The capability has been built into the Linux kernel since 1999 ...

Since most people will dual boot Linux on a laptop, adding a second hard drive is not an option. Partitions are logical divisions of space on a hard drive. When Windows or Linux is installed as the ...