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 ...

Automatic partitioning is safe and fast for standard installs—choose it if unsure. Manual partitioning is needed if you dual-boot, use LVM, or want separate filesystems for different partitions. Plan ...

Last README file showed how to format NTFS drives in Windows using PowerShell and Command Prompt commands. Today’s quick tip provides examples on how you can mount and unmount these same NTFS drives ...

You have data on your machines. Some of that data might be in the form of sensitive company or client information. Should that particular information fall into the wrong hands, well, you know that ...

Linux stands as a bastion of power and flexibility in the world of operating systems, particularly when it comes to managing disk storage. Whether you're a seasoned sysadmin, a developer, or a Linux ...

Loading up virtual machines is an easy to accomplish task, but configuring them properly is an ongoing balancing act. It’s very likely that in a virtualized environment you will over/under provision ...

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, ...

I was reading up on how to dual boot Linux/Win2k with the Win2k boot manager. Everything was going great until I prematurely added Linux to my boot.ini BEFORE I compiled the lilo.conf file to direct ...