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, ...

If you manually partition your Linux PC, you're setting up all the necessary partitions for your system and allocating disk ...

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 ...

Not too long ago, a friend sent me an e-mail that said, "I want to ask for a favor and see if you can help me to recover the data in the hard disk of my daughter's PC." I came to learn that some ...

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 ...

[root@shgut1 ~]# uname -a Linux shgut1 2.6.18-274.12.1.el5.unitrendsPAE #1 SMP Wed Jan 25 11:48:17 EST 2012 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux This is a Unitrends backup appliance, and I do already have a ...

Before you can partition your disk you'll need to squeeze your Windows partition to free up some disk space for the new partition. Head to the Disk Management tool, and right-click your main partition ...