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, ...

Despite having turned to The Google, I'm having trouble getting this process entirely down. My issue is the following: I have a MBP, purchased August 2010 (eg the last model prior to the Thunderbolt ...

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 ...

The Linux installation process is involved but it isn't actually that cumbersome. The exact installation steps are slightly different for every distribution, but in general the distro's graphical ...

Not too long ago, a friend sent me an e-mail that said, "I want to ask for a favor and see if you can help me to recover the data in the hard disk of my daughter's PC." I came to learn that some ...

Long story short - I've got my Mum's old iMac which is a Core i5 2500S vintage machine. 12GB RAM, 1TB spinning drive. Still quite a nice unit, screen is still good, so trying to see if we can make use ...

Storage-management software developer Acronis has announced release of its True Image Server for Linux 8.0, the industry’s first native Linux disk imaging, backup and bare-metal restore application, ...