Hello,

On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Venkatraman S wrote:
> What i am looking for:
> - How partitions work (the technical angle and insights)
> - Understanding Partitions (user's perspective)
> - Effective partitioning techniques or methodologies

On Fri, 24 Jul 2009, Kenneth Gonsalves wrote:
> -How to shrink a logical partition

It is no longer necessary to learn how to partition a disk in the
DOS sense.

Choice 1: Just use parted with your favourite interfaces,
command-line, curses, GTK, QT, ...?

Choice 2: Make just one LVM partition which you can then use via LVM2
in any way you like (parted also speaks LVM). Then use grub-pc (grub2)
to boot your system.  (Or if you insist you can use lilo as well).

One advantage of the second method is that you can resize your
logical block devices later as you find you need less/more space.
In this case the static "mbr" can be retired along with Windows!

Regards,

Kapil.
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