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 a hard drive which has a Primary partition ( WinMe ) and Extended Partition with four Logical Drives. XP being on one of them. I have about 18G freespace and was wondering if I could create ...

I am now dual booting for a customer Mandrake 7.2 and Windows2000 Pro and whenever Windows boots up, it' checks the Linux partitions and is extremely, painfully slow to start up. But linux being the ...

You have data on your machines. Some of that data might be in the form of sensitive company or client information. Should that particular information fall into the wrong hands, well, you know that ...

If you're dual booting Windows and Linux you're probably well aware of the number of tools available for browsing your Windows partition in Linux, but what's not quite as simple is browsing your Linux ...

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, ...

If you are unable to boot into Windows after installing Linux Mint or any other distro on your computer, try updating GRUB, ...