I've got a triple boot system. Win ME, Win 2K, Linux. I'm using the NT bootloader to select the OS. I've got two partitions on the C Drive (/dev/hda) that I would like to combine to create a new ...

In the beginning days of Unix and later Linux, disks were physically large, but very small in terms of storage capacity. A 300 megabyte disk in the mid-90’s was the size of a shoebox. Today, you can ...

Linux systems provide many ways to look at disk partitions. Here's a look at commands you can use to display useful information -- each providing a different format and with a different focus. Linux ...

I don't know where else to post this. I'm trying to install Win95 on a 1GB disk. BIOS automatically detects its CHS parameters correctly, but when I go into fdisk to partition it, it only sees 512 MB ...

In the comments on my recent posts about installing Linux on a netbook for a novice user (see my recommendations and my own results), someone mentioned that figuring out the disk partitioning was very ...

Linux is unique compared to other operating systems in that you're expected to have at least basic knowledge of the OS' command line. You can do pretty much everything from the command line, and ...