If you manually partition your Linux PC, you're setting up all the necessary partitions for your system and allocating disk ...
To do this I used Gparted to delete sda3 (the swap partition), moved sda2 and sda1 up by 8MB to make some room, created a 1024 block partition at the start of the disc and then shifted sda1 and sda2 ...
Despite virtualization becoming more relevant and multiple drives (including external) installed on your PC, there are still good reasons to use multiple partitions on Windows PCs. Regarding Windows, ...