Linux systems provide many ways to look at disk partitions. Here's a look at commands you can use to display useful information -- each providing a different format and with a different focus. Linux ...

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, ...

I have RH 7.2, I booted to shell by adding init=/bin/sh in grub, but when i get the shell prompt, instead of getting bash# i get init-2.05#. My reasont for doing this is that im trying to clear my ...

I've read the man page and the pages on mounting partitions in my linux book but I still can't solve the problem, so I turn it over to the Ars community.<BR><BR>I cannot mount my second partition as ...

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 ...