Third, you can see that the partition it is going to create for Linux will be formatted with the ext4 file system. That's a good general-purpose choice, especially if you are a novice Linux user.

The rest of the partition is taken up by some standard programs (MS Word, etc.), but even then I'm only using about 1.5 gigs. When I switch to XP, I'm planning on a boot partion no bigger than 3 gigs.

I made my boot partition a little smaller than I'd like when I created my OpenSUSE 11.1 VM using VMware Fusion 2.0.5.I have used VMware to expand the virtual hard disk from 10GB to 15GB, but I'm ...

Apple's OS by default can read NTFS partitions, allowing you to browse through your Boot Camp installation and copy files to your OS X partition if needed; however, to add full NTFS support for ...

This is called the 'EFI Boot Partition' (how imaginative), and it is a FAT32 filesystem. Within that partition there will be directories (folders) which contain the actual EFI boot files.

Boot Camp will add a partition on-the-fly to your system drive, but there are some things that can stand in the way of that process. AppleInsider explains how to fix most of the issues preventing ...

Modifying the boot partition can render Vista unbootable, although if you follow the instructions here it shouldn't. Still, it's a very good idea to ghost your system in case something goes wrong.

Boot Mac OS X. Launch Disk Utility and restore from the saved disk image to the new "NO NAME" partition. Boot Windows. Find and delete all the "Desktop" files that Mac OS X left behind.

In my case, I need to move the extended partition to the right so that I can extend the boot partition.To do this, I right click the extended partition and choose Resize/Move.