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 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 ...

I just ran into a big problem on the dual boot Win2K/Mandrake 7.2 machine I'm setting up... I can't write to the NTFS partition from Linux . A get a message saying "Read-only filesystem" when I try to ...

So I'm splurging on a new Athlon64 SFF box, which supports SATA. I wish to dual-boot for various reasons, namely Worlds of Warcraft, and have storage that's readable by both Windows and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...