I recently nuked 2000 Server off my disk since I finally completed my MCSE and no longer needed the playpen OS.<P>Pre-XP my hd looked like this:<P>[18gb unpartitioned][19gb ext2][1.5gb linux swap]<BR> ...

I want to create an 80Gb hard drive partition scheme that looks like this:<BR><BR>Partition 1: [-- 7.5Gb FAT32 Win2k --]<BR>Partition 2: [-- 7.5Gb ext2 Linux --]<BR>Partition 3: [-- 65Gb NTFS Data ...

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 ...

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, ...

If you’ve ever used a drive formatted with Linux and tried to access it on a Windows system, you’re likely to have problems, especially if the drive uses the NTFS file system. Even though NTFS is ...

“Linux rocks!” “No, it’s lame–stick with Windows!” Visit any Web site or online forum where impassioned computer users debate the relative merits of operating systems, and you’ll find endless ...

I do a good bit of cross platform development using Linux and Microsoft Windows. I can access Windows partitions from Linux using drivers that handle the FAT and NTFS file systems. Linux has its own ...

Lack of access to your data in a new operating system may be one of the most severe impediments for doing an OS migration. There is little personal incentive for users to switch to a system that can't ...