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 ...

Linux-Windows dual boot systems don't have an easy way to access Linux files while booted into Windows. Some tools exist, but they don't offer perfect solutions. I've found using a shared partition ...

For the HFS format, you should see about a 6 percent to 9 percent reduction in size after formatting a drive with one partition. In addition to the the size conversions we mentioned above, extra space ...