If you manually partition your Linux PC, you're setting up all the necessary partitions for your system and allocating disk ...

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 ...

Linux may be easier to use than ever before, but you'll still need to open up a command line from time to time. That includes managing your storage, which isn't exactly easy to do in Linux, even with ...

Well, if you want something very evil (and cool) that would get rid of any partition really easy, there's a little executable called "overkill.exe" that you can run from a boot disk to completely wipe ...

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 ...

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 ...

My previous post on Linux Mint Debian Edition 201303 has obviously uncovered a lot of confusion about EFI booting and GPT partition tables. I hope that I can explain it all a bit more, with a couple ...

I've installed Ubuntu Linux and all was going well until I decided to back it up with Ghost. It seems that the Ubuntu partition wasn't marked as EXT3. For some reason, all third party apps treated ...