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

If you give it the existing partition, and you already have other Linux distributions installed (and perhaps Windows), it is going to wipe the EFI boot files for everything else.

If you're a Linux user who happens to dual-boot with Windows, you should exercise extreme caution when upgrading to the just-released Windows 10 Anniversary Update. Not long after Microsoft's ...

Linux systems provide many ways to look at disk partitions. Here's a look at commands you can use to display useful information -- each providing a different format and with a different focus.

GParted Live boots quickly, and handles virtually any partition type, including nearly all Linux, OS X, and Windows types. Graphically, GParted Live is primitive.

quote:That was a good explanation except for one point. It is quite possible to use partitions without the OS formating them. It's called RAW devices, in this configuration the application ...

Vincent Danen goes over the basics of using the standard dd tool to back up and copy partitions and drives.