If you manually partition your Linux PC, you're setting up all the necessary partitions for your system and allocating disk ...

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, ...

How to add a new LVM volumes for full and partial disk usage Your email has been sent The Logical Volume Manager commands in Linux facilitate adding new disks and volumes to the operating system. It’s ...

</pre><BR><BR>So, in a system-only restore, I only want to restore the volume groups system_base and system_other, and not restore user_base (assume user_base is on a separate set of disks from the ...

Logical volumes are an alternate method of partitioning hard drive space. The capability has been built into the Linux kernel since 1999, contributed by Sistina Software. The Logical Volume Manager is ...

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 ...

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 ...