4.1.11 CLEARING A HARD DISK............................................................................55
4.2 ADDITIONAL PARTITION OPERATIONS .......................................... 57
4.2.1 CHANGING PARTITION LETTER..................................................................57
4.2.2 CONVERTING A FILE SYSTEM ....................................................................58
4.2.3 HIDING A PARTITION.................................................................................59
4.2.4 UNHIDING A PARTITION ............................................................................ 60
4.2.5 SETTING ACTIVE PARTITION......................................................................61
4.2.6 RESIZING ROOT .........................................................................................62
4.2.7 CHANGING CLUSTER SIZE .........................................................................63
4.2.8 CHANGING PARTITION TYPE......................................................................64
4.2.9 RESIZING INODE TABLE IN LINUX EXT2/EXT3 .......................................65
APPENDIX A. HARD DISK AND OPERATING SYSTEM .................................. 67
A.1 HARD DISK ORGANIZATION .......................................................... 67
A.2 HARD DISK PARTITION.................................................................. 68
A.3 PARTITION TYPES .......................................................................... 68
A.4 PRIMARY PARTITIONS ................................................................... 70
A.5 EXTENDED PARTITIONS................................................................. 70
A.6 LOGICAL PARTITIONS.................................................................... 70
A.7 FORMATTING HARD DISKS............................................................ 70
A.8 FILE SYSTEMS................................................................................ 71
A.9 FILE SYSTEM MAIN SPECIFICATIONS ............................................ 72
A.9.1 FILE SYSTEM SPECIFICATION SUMMARY ...................................................72
A.9.2 FAT16......................................................................................................73
A.9.3 FAT32......................................................................................................74
A.9.4 NTFS........................................................................................................74
A.9.5 LINUX EXT2 .............................................................................................75
A.9.6 LINUX EXT3 .............................................................................................75
A.9.7 LINUX REISERFS ......................................................................................75
APPENDIX B. GLOSSARY ............................................................................... 76
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