In the comments on my recent posts about installing Linux on a netbook for a novice user (see my recommendations and my own results), someone mentioned that figuring out the disk partitioning was very ...

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, ...

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 ...

There was a time when booting Linux from a floppy disk was the norm, but of course, those days are long gone. Even if you still had a working 3.5 inch drive, surely the size of the modern kernel alone ...

Linux is one of the world’s most popular open source operating systems, and much of the internet’s infrastructure is based on Linux. Having at least a baseline familiarity with Linux is a valuable ...

Noob alert. Windows guy here...<BR><BR>Am I overly spoilt by the proliferation of Windows disk cloning tools? I'm having trouble finding the same type of tool for Linux.<BR><BR>Scenario: ...