I had only Win98 installed, and then I put Linux (Red Hat 7.0) in the same disk. Lilo is in the MBR. I made the partitions with FDisk. I can boot with a diskette and access the linux partition ...

Jack Wallen walks you through the steps of encrypting a single partition on a Linux machine.

I have a hard drive which has a Primary partition ( WinMe ) and Extended Partition with four Logical Drives. XP being on one of them. I have about 18G freespace and was wondering if I could create ...

Normally, a standard Linux installation will require a minimum of two partitions – one for the root partition that holds all your files, and another smaller one that's used as a swap partition.

1. Device name: Linux disks are named sda, sdb and so on, with the partition's number added to the disk's device, so /dev/sda2 is the second partition on the first disk. 2.

Companies push Linux partitioning effort Effort is under way to get virtualization into the Linux kernel, so it can catch up with rival OSes in server efficiency.

Linux Reader is a free Windows application that allows you read access to ext2 and ext3 formatted drives (your Linux partition). The software does a nice job of copying the look and feel Windows ...

A push is under way to endow Linux with a virtual partitioning technology used by rival operating systems to make servers more efficient. SWsoft is trying to get OpenVZ made part of the mainstream ...