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Difference between Basic Disk and Dynamic Disk

Mahesh Parahar
Mahesh Parahar
Updated on 15-Apr-2020 3K+ Views

Both basic disk and dynamic disk are disk configurations available in Windows Operating System. A basic disk is from initial days of DOS, Windows to till date. Dynamic Disk is available from Window 2000 onwards.Basic DiskBasic Disk Configuration works on the concept of partition, partition table, and logical drives. A disk can have up to four partitions or three partitions and one extended partition with multiple logical drives. The following operations can be performed in basic disk configuration.Create/Delete primary/extended partition.Create/Delete logical drives within an extended partition.Format a partition and mark as active.Dynamic DiskDynamic Disk Configuration works on the concept of ...

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How to Increase the Size of a Linux LVM by Adding a New Disk?

Sharon Christine
Sharon Christine
Updated on 27-Jan-2020 9K+ Views

This article helps us to add a new disk to LVM ( Logical Volume Manager), the very best advantage of LVM over normal disk partitions is its support for “dynamic partitions”; you can create and resize (expand or shrink) LVM volumes dynamically as we needed. There is no limit of the physical disk boundary in LVM logical volumes, so you can create a large LVM volume that spans across multiple smaller physical disks. This flexibility partitioning allows you to manage storage space more efficiently as disk usage change from time to time.If you want to add new disks to an ...

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How to Format a Hard Disk on Linux OS

karthikeya Boyini
karthikeya Boyini
Updated on 27-Jan-2020 777 Views

In this article, we will learn how to add a new hard disk drive to Linux OS, Assuming the drive is visible to the BIOS, it should automatically be detected by the operating system. Typically, the disk drives in a system is assigned to a device name beginning with ‘hd’ or ‘sd’ followed by a letter to indicate the device number. For example, the first device might be /dev/sda, the second /dev/sdb and so on.The following is the output from a system with only one physical disk drive.# ls /dev/sd* /dev/sda /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sdbThis shows that the disk drive represented ...

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Basic Commands of APT-GET and APT-CACHE for Package Management

Sharon Christine
Sharon Christine
Updated on 23-Jan-2020 415 Views

Apt-get is the command-line utility for dealing with applications and may be considered for the person’s “back-end” to other tools for making use of the APT library.Apt-cache performs a variety of operations on APT’s package.This article explains about -“Basic Commands of APT-GET and APT-CACHE for Package Management”.Apt-getTo get the more options about apt-get, use the following command as shown below –$ apt-get -hThe sample output contains the following options as shown below –update - Retrieve new lists of packages    upgrade - Perform an upgrade    install - Install new packages (pkg is libc6 not libc6.deb)    remove - Remove ...

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How to Enable Or Add Swap Space on Ubuntu 16.04

karthikeya Boyini
karthikeya Boyini
Updated on 21-Jan-2020 570 Views

In this article, we will learn how to enable or add the swap partition on Ubuntu 16.04, actually, the swap will increase the chance of responsiveness of the servers by guarding the out of memory errors for the applications, by default Ubuntu will not enable the swap space. We will learn how to add or enable the swap file for Ubuntu 16.04 servers.Swap is the location or the file which can handle the temporary data which is not required immediately by RAM but will be used to increase the amount of information that the server can handle for its working ...

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How to Reclaim your Smart Phone’s Storage Space Quickly

karthikeya Boyini
karthikeya Boyini
Updated on 20-Jan-2020 174 Views

A smartphone is not just a phone, it can be a phone, a music player, a video player, a radio, an electronic musical instrument, a GPS, a gaming console, a heart rate monitor, a personal trainer, a digital camera, a document scanner, a messenger, a word processor, a personal pocket computer and the list of infinite possibilities goes on and on beyond your expectation, even beyond your imagination.Not only a gadget, a smartphone can be a status symbol for a huge number of people. A smartphone reflects and complements the personality of its owner. There is only one answer to ...

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Hold shutdown function of the system using shutdown7

Sharon Christine
Sharon Christine
Updated on 16-Jan-2020 234 Views

Shutdown7 is a compact application with feature-rich user interface that gives advancement to the window shutdown system – all in free. These shutdown7function get activated after specific condition in the system – on closing of an application, file deletion, music playback, or after a specific period of user activity.It is a very small and useful application to help the user to turn on or turn off the computer at a specific time. Only, user has to specify the exact date and time upon which computer get turned off and turned on. For example; when user runs some process and leave ...

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Speed up a slow pc without spending money

Sharon Christine
Sharon Christine
Updated on 16-Jan-2020 277 Views

If anybody PC gets slow down, they should not blame to the PC hardware. It’s true, they can speed up their PC by adding RAM, up-grading CPU, or exchanging hard drive with an SSD. All of these solutions tell to spend money.Users do not have to reinstall the operating system to speed-up their PC, they just have to apply some tricks on the PC to fixes the system problem.This article will definitely help those users who do not want to spend money on purchasing any tool (Software or hardware) at the time of system get slow down because of heavy ...

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Why did Intel Abandon a Promising Project like Atom?

Samual Sam
Samual Sam
Updated on 10-Jan-2020 268 Views

As of now, Intel is taking few of the last breaths left in the colossally competitive smartphone and tablet market. Intel drained out millions and billions of dollars in developing and marketing its mobile processor department. The PC chip manufacturer couldn’t stand a chance when it had to face the likes of Qualcomm and Mediatek as per my opinion.Inside IntelAccording to an Intel spokesperson, the company had to cancel two of its Atom-based chips immediately. These chips were code-named, Sofia and Broxton. These are perhaps the first few products that Intel has terminated for bringing in a revamp in its ...

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