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.

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 ...

Linux systems provide many ways to look at disk partitions. Here's a look at commands you can use to display useful information -- each providing a different format and with a different focus. Linux ...