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, ...

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 ...

I have some USBFDs here on which I have live distribs. Is there a tool similar to Partition Magic (Windows) which allows you to dynamically enlarge Linux and related partitions on a USBFD without ...

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 ...

December 1, 2010 Add as a preferred source on Google Add as a preferred source on Google There's nothing more annoying than booting into OS X only to realize you need access to some files on your ...

Vincent Danen goes over the basics of using the standard dd tool to back up and copy partitions and drives. There are a lot of backup utilities available, but the simplest backup tool is available ...

I have been asked by several people recently, both through here and privately, about the steps involved and the decisions to be made in converting a PC running Windows to Linux. After repeating the ...