The System Reserved Partition or EFI System Partition on your hard drive is a tiny sector Windows uses to house system files such as the Boot Configuration Database, Boot Manager Code, and Windows ...

disk0s1: Capacity: 209.7 MB (209,715,200 bytes) BSD Name: disk0s1 Content: EFI Macintosh HD: Capacity: 150 GB (149,999,996,928 bytes) Available: 92.4 GB ...

Here's a couple of related questions, rolled into one, which I am hoping someone can help me out with. These all relate to my attempting to understand the uses of the network block device (nbd) and ...

Not long ago, most industrial control systems had modest software requirements — typically, a few thousand source lines of code. Today, however, an embedded control system may contain hundreds of ...

An operating-system partitioning solution for multi-core systems—QNX Secure Partitioning for Multi-Core Processors—offers the first secure memory and CPU partitioning capability for multi-core systems ...

One of the many achievements I am not likely ever to add to my short list is writing a good translation of Dante’s Inferno. There are several reasons for this. First, at least one excellent ...

Hardware/software partitioning algorithms are fundamental in the design of modern embedded systems, where the allocation of functionalities between hardware accelerators and software components is ...

Partitioning, a technology used in mainframe computers, is making its way into mid- and high-end Unix systems where corporate users employ it to isolate and protect applications from each other, ...

If you manually partition your Linux PC, you're setting up all the necessary partitions for your system and allocating disk ...

Partitioning can provide a number of benefits to a sharding system, including faster query execution. Let’s see how it works. In a previous post, I described a sharding system to scale throughput and ...