You can format an external hard drive in Ubuntu using the Gnome Partition Editor. It provides a graphical interface to simplify formatting and resizing hard drive ...

In the comments on my recent posts about installing Linux on a netbook for a novice user (see my recommendations and my own results), someone mentioned that figuring out the disk partitioning was very ...

Mac OS X Mountain Lion gives users several ways to access the Terminal and three common options for formatting a hard drive. You can launch Terminal within Mac OS X to format hard drives currently not ...

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Formatting an SSD is the best way to boost its performance or clear out any potentially malicious malware whenever you move it to a new system, purchase one second hand, or plan to sell yours on to ...

No matter how high-capacity your storage drive is, you always need to see how much space you have used and what files are using it. While there are ways to do this from the GUI in Linux, as always, ...