Ok here's a fun question.<BR><BR>I have one distro of linux installed on a partition. I want to test out another distro on a separate partition (using the same swap partition) and if I like it, I'd ...

Ok here it is...i have 2 40GB HDDs, one is a WD (has bad sectors at the front of it i found out) and a Maxtor (good and new). now the maxtor has a 5gb partition for Win2k Pro and then rest is FAT32 ...

As usual, this blog post comes out of something I have been working on (read as: struggling with) for the past few days. The purpose is to give an overview of disk partitioning under Linux, ...

Ubuntu and other Linux distributions make dual booting easy, once certain configuration issues are addressed. Dual booting requires that space be made on the hard ...

When I moved from Windows to Linux in mid-2025, I thought I knew all the things I had to know before moving. Yes, I realised that Linux isn't Windows, so things like EXE files wouldn't work. Yes, I ...

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 ...