Linux may be easier to use than ever before, but you'll still need to open up a command line from time to time. That includes managing your storage, which isn't exactly easy to do in Linux, even with ...

I'm trying to clear all the partitions on an old compaq computer. it has a 2.5gb hd. 2gb are in the primary partition and there is a .5gb extended partition. Initially, there was no logical partition.

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

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 ...