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 ...

I was trying to delete the active partition with fdisk.<BR>Wouldn't you know it, the system had given it a name with lower caps.<BR>fdisk wouldn't let me type lower case letters for the volume name so ...