One of the most confusing and intimidating parts of installing Linux for dual-booting with Windows is the disk partitioning required.

Terms like hard disk, drive, partition, and image are often confusing. Knowing the difference saves time and avoids errors ...

With this, dd can copy a file to another file, or a partition to another partition, or file to partition (and vice versa). This makes dd quite versatile, and perfect for cloning partitions and drives.

A partition separates a section of a physical disk into another virtual drive. When you split a hard drive into two partitions, you're creating a separate disk that your operating system (like ...

When trying to partition and format various USB hard drives, a number of users are getting errors in Disk Utility that states "Disk Erase failed with the error: POSIX reports: The operation couldn ...