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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

I had the same trouble with 7.10 Desktop Edition. Basically, it seems that the partition editor that runs while installing can't format a drive larger than 50 Gb or so. In any case, the solution is to ...

If you are following this short series I am sure you are itching to get on with 'dual booting' Linux on your Windows XP computer (or the DT MK II) but before we go any further it will be helpful to ...