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, ...

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 ...

Let's start by clearly stating what this post is, and what it isn't. It is a description of how I set up multi-boot for Linux systems, sometimes including Windows, using the GRUB bootloader. It is not ...

I posted on here yesterday about my boot disk messing up when I upgraded to RH 7.3 from 7.2. Well I dual boot with WinXP, so I was unable to get into Linux after I discovered there was something wrong ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...