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 ...

You have data on your machines. Some of that data might be in the form of sensitive company or client information. Should that particular information fall into the wrong hands, well, you know that ...

I've got a Mac laptop that I'm trying to triple-boot with Ubuntu (prior to this, I had Windows set up with Boot Camp). Following the instructions on various websites, I installed rEFI, and added two ...

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 ...

Recently I needed to solve the problem of an apparently 100%-full root partition on a server that I am responsible for monitoring. This was unexpected and sudden, as the partition's usage has been at ...