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 a disk in Linux involves dividing a physical disk into logical segments (partitions) to organize data and allocate space for different purposes, such as installing operating systems, ...

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 ...

LVM (Logical Volume Management) is the recommended way to manage disk or storage on Linux systems, especially for servers. One of the main advantages of LVM partition is that we can extend its size ...

「知人からlinuxのコマンドでパーティション（partition）を作成すればいいよとアドバイスされたけれど、パーティションってそもそも何？」と思われている方もいるかと思います。パソコンを使用していると、パーティションを作成したほうが良い場面に ...

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 ...

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 ...

Part 1 of this two-part series describes RAID, in which cases RAID-1 is useful, the RAID-1 installation requirements and how to install RAID-1 when you have an ...