Linux stands as a bastion of power and flexibility in the world of operating systems, particularly when it comes to managing disk storage. Whether you're a seasoned sysadmin, a developer, or a 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 ...

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, ...

Partitioning means writing the hard drive sectors that will make up the partition table. It contains information on the partition, including sector size, position with respect to the primary partition ...

In the beginning days of Unix and later Linux, disks were physically large, but very small in terms of storage capacity. A 300 megabyte disk in the mid-90’s was the size of a shoebox. Today, you can ...

Despite having turned to The Google, I'm having trouble getting this process entirely down. My issue is the following: I have a MBP, purchased August 2010 (eg the last model prior to the Thunderbolt ...

Most PCs come from the factory with a single partition on their hard drive, meaning that it shows up as one drive in the Computer window (as C:, typically). But keeping your data, applications, and ...

A partition separates a section of a physical disk into another virtual drive. When you split a hard drive into two partitions, you're creating a separate disk that your operating system (like Windows ...

I started out looking for a handy disk partitioning tool to repair a colleague’s ailing computer. I ended up finding a toolbox full of very handy repair and system maintenance apps. As a bonus, I got ...