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When sharing the entire content of a partition with other computers on your network, you might see that it is listed as shared but in fact it cannot be accessed. Other users trying to access your partition might receive the following error message: '\\ComputerName\Partition is not accessible. You might not have permission to use this network resource.read more

In this tutorial you can learn the following: how to change a drive letter, how to shrink an existing partition, how to create a new partition, how to format or delete a partition and how to extend a partition.

1This article shows how you can modify the partitioning of your Linux system with GParted (Gnome Partition Editor) without losing data. This includes resizing partitions (enlarging and shrinking), moving partitions on the hard drive, creating and deleting partitions, and even modifying filesystem types. GParted is a free partition editor available as a desktop program and also as a Live-CD. It supports the following filesystems: ext2, ext3, fat16, fat32, hfs, hfs+, jfs, linux-swap, reiserfs, reiser4, ufs, xfs, and even ntfs (Windows).

1This tutorial shows how you can back up and restore hard drives and partitions with Ghost4Linux. Ghost4Linux is a Linux Live-CD that you insert into your computer; it contains hard disk and partition imaging and cloning tools similar to Norton Ghost. The created images are compressed and transferred to an FTP server instead of cloning locally.

1This article is about resizing ext3 partitions without losing data. It shows how to shrink and enlarge existing ext3 partitions and how to merge two ext3 partitions. This can be quite useful if you do not use LVM and you realize that your existing partitioning does not meet your actual needs anymore. http://www.howtoforge.com/linux_resizing_ext3_partitions

Partitioning /dev/sda - SCSI or SATA

Anytime we think about installing OS on more than one system 'cloning' comes to our attention. Because we are too lazy :-). Well that is one of the important characteristics of Systems Administrator so that he/she is forced to automate. In this document w

Partition Image is a Linux/UNIX utility which saves partitions in many formats (see below) to an image file. The image file can be compressed in the GZIP/BZIP2 formats to save disk space, and split into multiple files to be copied on removable floppies (Z

"One of the selling points of 'LiveCD' Linux distributions is that they allow you to try out Linux on your computer with out touching anything on your hard drive. Sometimes, however, you you want to do exactly that. While playing with a Ubuntu LiveCD on my Powerbook, I decided that I wanted to do exactly that. These are the steps that I followed, after some Googling led me to this thread on the Ubuntu forums.

Please Note: By default, the Ubuntu LiveCD will not touch your hard drive. This is for your safety. The steps below allow you read and write to your hard drive's OS X partition while running Ubuntu from the Live CD. If this makes you in any way nervous, don't do it. If you don't know why it should make you nervous, don't do it. I make no warranties. You could lose all your data, your job, or your hair. In fact, you should just stop reading now, and go watch television."