My windows install was giving me a lot of grief today, (kept freezing while formatting the hard drive) so I popped in a Mandrake 8.0 disc just to see if the install would complete.Anyways, now ...

I need to format my linux partition (since I need the temporary storage space to convert my storage HD to FAT32) but I want to make sure that doing so won't screw-up the bootloading process -- 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.