In the comments on my recent posts about installing Linux on a netbook for a novice user (see my recommendations and my own results), someone mentioned that figuring out the disk partitioning was very ...

Recently I needed to solve the problem of an apparently 100%-full root partition on a server that I am responsible for monitoring. This was unexpected and sudden, as the partition's usage has been at ...

I'm going to start this post by saying something that a lot of people will find surprising. There are a lot of things that I like about UEFI firmware and the UEFI boot process. I think it is an ...

In another article in this issue of Linux Journal [page 84], I talk about my experiences with the new solid state drive (SSD) I installed on my laptop. One of the things I didn't mention in the ...

With encouragement from me my father-in-law installed Mandrake 8.2 on his Win2k/98 machine last night. We used Partition Magic to trim down the Win98 FAT partition to make space for Linux. Tested both ...