In the comments on my recent posts about installing Linux on a netbook for a novice user (see my recommendations and my own results), someone mentioned that figuring out the disk partitioning was very ...

We're platform agnostic at Lifehacker, which is why we love dual-and triple-booting our computers. Unfortunately sharing data between operating systems can be a huge headache. Here's how to stay ...

I've neve used them personally but I know parted can create them and it looks like the kernel option is CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION which is on by default in Debian, I don't have an Ubuntu machine to check ...