K eeping a Linux recovery drive is a wise approach because you can use it to access the disk files or reinstall the OS if ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

There was a time when booting Linux from a floppy disk was the norm, but of course, those days are long gone. Even if you still had a working 3.5 inch drive, surely the size of the modern kernel alone ...

How to Set Temporary Environment Variables in Linux (+Video Tutorial) Your email has been sent In Jack Wallen's tutorial for developers, he show how easy it is to set temporary environment variables ...

A fully operational version of Linux that boots from a CD without upsetting the hard disk proves a very useful tool when Windows will not work, says Kelvyn Taylor The other day I noticed a colleague ...

Noob alert. Windows guy here...<BR><BR>Am I overly spoilt by the proliferation of Windows disk cloning tools? I'm having trouble finding the same type of tool for Linux.<BR><BR>Scenario: ...