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 ...

fdisk is a stalwart of Linux as a basic tool for partitioning hard drives. This is a part of any Linux installation, since it wants its own partition and you'll likely want a swap partition as well.

sudo fdisk /dev/sdb 3. blkid When you want to permanently mount a drive with fstab, you might need to use a device ID and not a name. The blkid command lists block device attributes.

Write changes to the disk and exit fdisk. Format the partition with a file system, for example, mkfs.ext4 /dev/sdX1. Mount the partition to a directory to start using it. Implementing Logical Volume ...

When I reboot, grub has gone to cli. After wading through that (root (hd 0,0) chainloader +1 boot), I get into Xp- low and behold, my Linux partition has disappeared altogether!

Then you can set the Linux partition active, and add entries for Windows to /etc/lilo.conf and reinstall LILO.<BR><BR>If you want to keep BootMagic, you'd do best to run BootMagic from DOS again.

The Fdisk tool included with Linux can be used to delete the partitions. (There are other utilities that work just as well, such as Fdisk from MS-DOS 5.0 and later, or you can delete the ...