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Linux and Disk Partitions
Blog A typical PC BIOS will allow a maximum of four partitions to be created on one disk. Corresponding to this, Linux reserves the first four device names on a disk drive to match these four partitions - regardless of how many partitions you actually...
[January 20, 2009, 16:09]
Sun partitions, virtualises Solaris
News Sun has updated its Solaris operating system with a feature that lets its newest Sparc-based servers run multiple copies of the Unix variant in separate partitions. The feature, called Logical Domains, or LDoms, is in Solaris 11/06, the company...
[January 16, 2007, 7:55]
Guidelines for Configuring Virtual Partitions on Cellular Platforms
White Papers The HP-UX virtual Partitions (vPars) solution is one of the popular choices available to customers who are considering workload consolidation on nPartitions (hard partitions on cellular HP platforms).
[January 9, 2008, 0:01]
IBM System p Virtualization Technologies - Workload Partitions (WPARs) and Shared Processor LPARs
White Papers It focuses on the Shared Processor LPAR (SPLPAR) feature of POWER5 and POWER6 based System p servers and Workload Partitions (WPAR) introduced with AIX Version 6.1. The paper describes related capabilities of System p Advanced POWER Virtualization...
[April 9, 2008, 1:02]
ATTO ExpressPro-Tools
Downloads It can be used to configure the host adapter, create partitions, format partitions, and modify mode pages. A benchmark utility is also included.
[September 18, 2002, 8:00]
DriveImage XML
Downloads DriveImage XML is an easy to use and reliable program for imaging and backing up partitions and logical drives. The program allows you to backup logical drives and partitions to image files, browse these images, view and extract files, restore...
[October 4, 2009, 11:18]
In Praise of Gparted
Blog I have been trying to rationalize the multitude of partitions on my various laptops today, and I just want to say that the Gnome Partition Editor (gparted) has really been fantastic. Using it, I have added, removed, moved, enlarged and shrunk all...
[May 1, 2009, 16:03]
VolumeWorks
Downloads Resize and manage the partitions (volumes) on the hard drives on your Apple Macintosh computer without erasing them. You can use VolumeWorks to create and delete partitions, with many custom icons that can be automatically applied to your newly...
[December 8, 2006, 7:23]
Setting Up a Sub-Capacity SAS License
White Papers On newer mainframe systems, customers can subdivide the CPU capacity that they want to allow for SAS software by using Logical PARtitions (LPAR). In addition, this paper tells how to find that information and how to change (if necessary) the...
[May 31, 2008, 1:01]
Secure open source desktop gets public funding
Talkback Mount all writeable partitions noexec and all partitions with executables read-only. Maintenance is done using sudo, and if necessary calling a non-restricted shell or temporarily re-mounting the partitions with new options.
[June 1, 2005, 8:01]
iPartition
Downloads iPartition is a disk partitioning utility for Mac OS X with the ability to resize Mac OS extended (HFS ) partitions and Windows partitions while keeping their contents intact. In version 3, you can now resize Windows partitions which means you can...
[September 21, 2009, 5:41]
Ubuntu 9.04 Snaps Desktop Visaster
Blog Comment XWJ - Could you please check again to be sure that all six of your partitions are Primaries? We reduced the size of the Windows partition to make room for Mandriva, but the whole process would have been a lot easier and cleaner if we could have...
[July 21, 2009, 8:43]
QA Disk Repair
Downloads QA Disk Repair offers an easy way to recover files and documents from corrupted partitions and damaged hard disks, even if they are inaccessible or do not appear as a drive letter in Windows. Powerful algorithms for locating and recovering damaged...
[April 21, 2008, 8:00]
Windows Data Recovery Software
Downloads Data recovery software for Windows recovers files and folders lost due to damaged or corrupted partitions from FAT and NTFS. Recovers data lost due to deleted or formatted partitions in all logical crashes.
[December 28, 2007, 7:00]
Partition Zapper
Downloads Deletes Hard Drive Partitions When FDISK Won't.Partition Zapper is a free program that solves the infamous Partitions exist but they don't exist problem caused by Microsoft FDISK. Partition Zapper removes all partitions from a PC hard...
[November 22, 2006, 12:17]
Microsoft wins final FAT battle
Talkback There are FAT drivers in the Linux kernel, so that you can read hard disk partitions that are formatted in FAT. When those FAT drivers are removed from the Linux kernel, nothing is wrong (except that you won't be able to read FAT partitions anymore).
[January 12, 2006, 13:54]
Ubuntu 9.04 Snaps Desktop Visaster
Blog Comment Turns out that when the system is booted up in Visaster and you use Disk Manager it reports that there are 6 primary partitions, 3 for Visaster (hidden FAT, C drive and D drive both NTFS) and 3 for Ubuntu (/root, swap and /home).
[July 21, 2009, 15:01]
Introduction to Integrity Virtual Machines
White Papers This paper introduces HP Integrity Virtual Machines (Integrity VM) - an extension of the existing Partitioning Continuum that blends and extends the benefits of HP-UX virtual Partitions (vPars) and HP Process Resource Manager (PRM).
[May 8, 2007, 1:00]
Digital Dolly
Downloads Digital Dolly can back up and restore hard-disk partitions directly to and from Windows file servers, and supports most common network cards. Digital Dolly supports creating, cloning, and resizing FAT16, FAT32, NTFS, and Linux ext2 partitions and...
[August 20, 2003, 5:41]
Ubuntu 9.04 (Jaunty Jackalope) Final Release
Blog Comment There are currently very few backup programs which support backing up EXT4 partitions. Acronis True Image 2009 works perfectly backing up an NTFS/EXT3 dual boot system (and it seems to now only backup the data part of EXT3 Partitions making it...
[April 25, 2009, 15:32]
