I have a 20gigs HDD, with 5MB devoted to linux. Now I want to remove the partition without affecting my existing windows partition which has some valuable files. I do not want to completely reformat ...

Well, if you want something very evil (and cool) that would get rid of any partition really easy, there's a little executable called "overkill.exe" that you can run from a boot disk to completely wipe ...

As usual, this blog post comes out of something I have been working on (read as: struggling with) for the past few days. The purpose is to give an overview of disk partitioning under Linux, ...