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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Operating systems, such as Linux, provides partitioning software to resize partitions without any data loss. It's possible to resize a partition using Gparted in an easy and a convenient way. Gparted ...

If you’ve ever used a drive formatted with Linux and tried to access it on a Windows system, you’re likely to have problems, especially if the drive uses the NTFS file system. Even though NTFS is ...

I have a hard drive which has a Primary partition ( WinMe ) and Extended Partition with four Logical Drives. XP being on one of them. I have about 18G freespace and was wondering if I could create ...

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 ...