Today that would be /dev/sda1.
If you have an older system or kernel: /dev/hda1.
If there is an unallocated space on your disk, you can create partition directly with this unallocated space; if there is no unallocated space on your disk, you should first shrink a comparatively larger partition to get an unallocated space, then create partition
partition the disk
A computer hard disk cam be split into partitions, this can be done for many reasons, including the need for two different operating systems on one computer and to reduce disk space wastage. A secondary partition would be any such partition on the disk, which is not the first partition, you would normally expect to boot from the primary partition.
To recover a formatted disk or partition, you need a free partition recovery tool.
sda1 is normally the one. It indicates the first disk's first patrition. if you have more than one disk or you put the system into, for example, the second disk's first patrition. Then the mbr will guide it to boot from sdb1.
It is the 6th partition of you primary IDE hard drive. hd stands for hard disk ( Please note that in case of SCSI the names would be sd) Disks are numbered as hda, hdb, hdc and so on partitions are numbered as 1, 2, 3 and so on So hda1 is the first partition on first hard disk and hdb2 is the second partition on second hard disk.
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First of all boot partition must be active by default or your system will not boot. Second, there is not such thing as a system partition. There is a system disk which is usually located on boot partition. If you are asking about whether you can change size of boot partition in cost of another partition the answer is yes. The best way to do that is to use one utilities designed for such purposes, for instance, Acronis Disk Director.
(On Windows), the active partition is a primary partition on a disk which Windows will load its files from. An active partition is always a startup partition. If there are several OS's on the one disk, Windows will load from the one marked as active. - pentavore
delete a partition on the system disk (C)
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