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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Can anyone shed some light on whythe Ubuntu 18.04.1 installer can't see any partitions on the NVMe disc (so I can't add a new partition after the existing ones) but if I hit ctrl-alt-F2 to get to ...

[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 ...