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, ...

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 ...

Linux systems provide many ways to look at disk partitions. Here's a look at commands you can use to display useful information -- each providing a different format and with a different focus. Linux ...

Edit and create partitions, copy files off, test your memory and more with this free Linux-based partitioning utility/boot disc. Note: This review addresses v6.0 of the software. As of January 2014, ...

I suspect that all your hard drive is allocated to existing partitions. Your choices are to either delete some existing partitions (BACK UP YOUR DATA FIRST), or resize the existing partitions using ...

I am trying to give another go with Linux and managed to get Red Hat 9.0 installed and apparently running correctly last night. This morning I signed up with the Red Hat Network and was able to update ...

The B-tree file system (Btrfs) is a type of file system with a copy-on-write principle and a logical volume manager. Originally developed to address the lack of snapshots, integrity checking, data ...

If you're a Linux user who happens to dual-boot with Windows, you should exercise extreme caution when upgrading to the just-released Windows 10 Anniversary Update. Not long after Microsoft's latest ...