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 ...

Adding a second (or third or more!) hard drive to your computer is a great way to, well, give your computer more disk space. Ok, the concept is pretty logical but the process to make it work needs ...

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, ...

[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 ...