The great thing about creating RAID volumes in Linux is that it’s so easy. RAID is really important for servers, and like most server software on Linux, it gets a lot of development attention. In our ...

Part 1 of this two-part series describes RAID, in which cases RAID-1 is useful, the RAID-1 installation requirements and how to install RAID-1 when you have an ...

Creating a software RAID 5 array in Linux takes only two terminal commands. In Linux, the program mdadm (we like to pronounce it “madam”) is what we’ll use to set up the array. First things first, you ...

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 ...

I'll soon be setting up my new computer - A64 3200+ on MSI K8N motherboard using 2 Samsung 120GB SATA drives in RAID 0. I will be installing Windows XP on this computer, but want the capability of ...

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 ...