I have a 20gigs HDD, with 5MB devoted to linux. Now I want to remove the partition without affecting my existing windows partition which has some valuable files. I do not want to completely reformat ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

If you can't boot into Windows after deleting the Linux partition, and see errors like "GRUB rescue>" or "no boot device found" take these steps to resolve the boot issue.