After a year of provisioning Linux VMs with a new template, we have recently found that our default provisioned disk size is overkill, and the guests only need a fraction of the space we allotted. The ...

Just a brief question really. I plan to install Fedora Core 9 on my system (AMD A64 X2, 4 GB RAM) to dual boot with XP. I've used Linux before, but only in a fairly limited setting at uni.

Partitioning means writing the hard drive sectors that will make up the partition table. It contains information on the partition, including sector size, position with respect to the primary partition ...